First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.

If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.

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.