If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.
Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.
Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.
Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.