The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Quality … has to do with intention.

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

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!

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.