Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.
All of my marriages lasted seven years.
It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.