I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.

Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.

The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how you express your artistry. Look at paintings, movies, drawings, sculptures - look at anything visual and try to integrate that into your visual sense. After that, go out and take pictures and keep on taking pictures!