Photography

The other day someone asked me;

"What makes a good photographer?"

I didn't really know what to reply, it wasn't the body of the camera, that only controls the resolution and clarity of the image, it wasn't the lenses and filters, because every lense/filter is different and everyone uses them differently.

i came to the answer of it being a personal thing; the ways someone sees an image.

but is that solely that?

if someone was to reenact an image, they could get an image very similar with no skill what so ever,

so is a photographer classified as 'good' because of sheer luck of being in the right place at the right time?

having the knowledge of how to use a camera is not what makes a good photographer,

it is their eye, the way they see something, thats how i explained to to another friend a few weeks earlier.

i became quite stumped as to how much of a hole i had dug myself, everything was lead to something else,

and it all ended up being one big circle,

so i wana know... What do you think makes a good photographer?