Life through a lens I've taken about 17,000 photo's in the past 18 months, most of those within the past 12 really, some days I'll be out for a couple of hours purely with the intention to take photo's and I'll come home with near 200 sometimes from just one session, and often of those I'll end up with quite a few that I really like. It's almost a case of serendipity, just managing to get that perfect shot.
Of course the more you get into it the greater control you can get and that can help with the quality of an image, but I feel that for me there is a spontaneity to it, seeing something and attempting to capture it as I saw it. I feel that if I stopped too much and spent too long trying to capture any given thing that I wouldn't appreciate the shot in the same way afterwards.