I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.

There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.

Forget what it was. Look at what it is.

If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.

Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how movement affects the mood of the photo.

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.