Well, if you stumble across something that looks interesting, remind yourself of that oft-repeated but still invaluable piece of advice to
really engage with your subject and work it.
When I say that, I'm not advocating mindless spray-and-pray tactics, but rather being focussed on what you are doing, trying out different angles, positions, bracketing exposures, ensuring perfect focus, and the like. In digital photography, hey, you're no longer restricted to those 24 or 36 exposures on your roll of film. Nothing is more frustrating than encountering a great opportunity and then not nailing the shot. For this bokehlicious image of the Christmas star at my parents' terrace window, I persisted through 37 frames, hand-held at various positions, giving the AF a generous number of tries, with frame #21 turning out to achieve exactly the constellation of stars and blur that I was after, and that without even cropping:
https://500px.com/photo/133611595/newborn-christmas-stars-by-marc-synwoldt?c...ser_id=2738079