I love photography, I men who does not love focusing a lens on the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure.
I do like to take pictures, but not with the same passion as you.
If you need to take good pictures, all you need is a good camera. It has made the  modern photographic camera evolved from the camera obscura.
Yes indeed. A  good camera is everything.
Photography
Photography is the art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purposes, hobby, and mass communication.
Typically, a lens is used to focus the light
reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. With an electronic image sensor, this produces an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. The result with photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically "developed" into a visible image, either negative or positive depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the method of processing. A negative image on