Taking pictures, the only way to stop time, is a matter of skill, precision and passion for beauty. Photography is the art of communication without words; as they say it , "a picture can be more valuable than 1000 words".
Therefore, how we do it doesn't have to be a matter of technology; it has to be a matter of enthusiasm for the little things that we capture in our photos. Sometimes even the ugliest pictures can be spectacular if there're done creatively. A smile, a squint, a tear, confines in one photo what we can't say with words, our emotions.
Physical appearance is the best the way to interpret people. We look at their faces, we analyze their behavior, and thus, we translate all that into beautiful portraits that last forever.