The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.
Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.
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.