You speak pearls of wisdom Bri. Experience certainly comes into play but one cannot take for granted the amount of work that you do taking those pictures..even during the awkward stages I am going on a hunch that you still looked like a natural
. Then again sometimes experience can bite you in the behind. I was a drummer for over 10 years, number of bands I was in: 2, number of drum sticks broken: 500+, number of groupies, -7. Realizing after all that time you were merely adequate at best: priceless