It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.
Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.
Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.
I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.