My advice to those wanting to learn photography is that it's not something you learn in the classroom. While technique and all the little rules that photographers of the past have decided upon can be taught, they are there only to be broken. Creativity does not stem from a book. The art of photography is not defined by the text you read. It is a brief moment in life, a fraction of a second to be stolen, and should we choose, a moment to be shared with the world. Never be confined by the beliefs of others. Live life but breath art.