I should add though that sometimes when i try to get nice subject in backgrounds I can clutter the image. This is something I try to watch for now. I know you like a lot of nature shots too, and that is where you have to try to pick what will look good. How many trees...how much of a lake,etc. This next was a fast hope I get them.No tripod.

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."