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Looks great! But don't gatekeep your own previous work as "not real photography". You can shoot amazing pictures on your phone. Or on a digital point&shoot from the 90s. Or on a friggin gameboy camera. The "real" photography is the photons we've captured along the way.
I'm glad I have much more power over what I'm creating now. While my phone is neat, it caps at twice zoom. Yet the telephoto lens I've got with my DSLR has much, much more range, it requires the steadiest of hands, plus a resting place, plus haze removal sometimes, just to get an image together. It is powerful, but very specific.