Excellent advice...HOWEVER.
I think we must impose a limit between what is original and artistic and what is downright silly. I see thousands of photos of absolutely sod all everywhere now. Someone sees a discarded crisp packet on the floor, stops, takes out camera, points it straight at the floor, hits the shutter and all of a sudden they're some sort of artistic genius, making art out of rubbish.
NO NO NO! These shots are still no good! A case in point is that ghastly feature that comes on cameras now which makes all but a selected colour black and white, making a single subject stand out. This was good for about 5 minutes, until every Tom, Dick and Harry fresh outta Currys with their new wunderkamera was taking pictures of banana yellow Toyotas in downtown Slough and declaring themselves to be the new Prokudin-Gorsky based on their (or more correctly their camera's) clever manipulation of colour.
All imho, rant mode off.
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