Well, we could start to rap that song, Sheila! LOL! I agree with the others. I'm used to get out, take cam and when I find something I shoot. When not I have enjoyed the stroll anyway. It's that unexplicable mood, to shoot good pictures or not. You can't force it. It is there or it isn't there! Thye best shots I made are usually the unintended ones, the coincidents.... You bear the most important part in you, the artistic side! Technical skills.... Well, sometimes it might be handy to have just some simple rules on a paper you carry with the cam. Initially I did do that with my SLR-cam, and I wrote down what I did to learn the behaviour of the cam. Let go the 'must' and just enjoy the sun! Everything else will come (or not, but you can't make it come anyway). huuuuggggggzzzzz