All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.
The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.
The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.
Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.
I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.