> The thinking guy with the one approach will likely lose a photo competition to one of the accidentally better shots of the person who tried a lot more.

If that were the case then photo competitions would have been upended by now by tourists who accidentally took masterpieces with their phones.

I can take as many thousands of pictures as I want but, without taking the time to critically review them to see what works and what doesn't, I will rarely produce a prize-worthy picture. And then there's the risk that I'll discard it anyway because I don't have the eye to separate the prize-winning picture from the Instagram shot all my contacts are publishing.