I will always be the first to admit that I don't know where an image comes from. A colleague/hero of mine in photojournalism recently posted about how ''luck' comes from hard work and dedication to your passions. So true! What we learn about phrselved is only understood when those lessons smack us upside the head. When i was in photo school i learned a lot about how to, but very little about 'what is,' though it was partly my fault because we had a very good instructor named Tom Hunt and another named Arther Rainville who were pushing us to understand. (For the record some got it right away like Craig Walker and Dan Delong!). Good image making has very little to do with mastery over equipment(though we need to know this) and much much more to do with creating emotion within the frame of what we're seeing.. It is what i hope for anyway!