If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.
Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.