If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.
Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.
You cannot accurately remember color.