As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.

The first impression of a new subject is not necessary the best. Seen from a different angle or under different condition it might look even better. Always study a three - dimensional subject with one eye closed.

The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer will compete with the imaginative painter. Painting must return to the natural world from time to time for renewal of the artistic vision. The key sector of renewal of vision today is the new vistas revealed by science. Here photography, which is not only art but science also, stands on the firmest ground.

Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.