You need minimum color for maximum effect.

Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

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 have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.

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.