David Meldrum

" The widespread idea that films necessarily involve the complex farce of the professional cinema has its antithesis in a field of Japanese rice, where Okamoto wades in with a 16mm Camera in his hand and achieves a totally different creative result. The Japanese film poet cut himself off from the script department, the studio, projectors, film crews and even the camera tripod, and went off by himself into the countryside in pursuit of his celluloid poems.

Kenneth Anger Modesty and the Art of Film 1951

I mostly work alone, and my equipment is minimal and definitely not expensive. I work intuitively and more often than not without a storyboard or a script. I mostly shoot in natural daylight and preferably alone in the wild.
I do own two tripods but if it means losing the moment then I will shoot hand held or at best with a shoogley tripod. Moments of natural transcendence are usually transient.