The best adage I have ever heard is most photographers would take far better shots if they:
1) Sold half (or more) of their equipment.
2) Invested that money in courses from good photographers.
Unlike a flashlight where the equipment is really everything, isn't showing off your photography equipment sort of like a "mine is bigger than yours" exercise ..... without really showing the goods? Granted, it is almost impossible to replace a macro, or a long zoom when you can get close for framing, but I would gladly give up a $2,000 70-200 stabilized F2.8 (unless shooting sports), for an cheap 18-200 super-zoom if it meant the difference between being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and being in the right place, at the right time, with just the right lighting. All the equipment in the world does not replace composition .... best done by experience, knowledge, research, and perhaps most of all, the patience and perseverance to be in the right place at the right time.
The best picture is often the one you take .... so all the recent postings should have had their cell phones in there. Good composition/lighting on a cell phone is going to win out over bad on an SLR every day, no matter how much resolution or dynamic range there is.