Your photographic equipment does not need to be anything fancier than a basic 35 mm with color film or a digital camera with reasonable resolution - fuzzy or pixilated pictures aren't very useful.

The important thing to remember about monitoring rangelands and pastures is to keep adequate written records and photos of your monitoring activities so you can compare the assessments over a long period of time. That allows you to better identify the true effect of management on the forage resource.