David Vestal, photographer, artist, teacher (1924-2013), educated at the Art Insitute of Chicago was a regular contributor to the now defunct magazine: Photo Techniques. His regular essay was a source of important advice about photography, specifically, but, more, such guidance, I found, was applicable to artistic endeavors of all kinds, thus a guide for photographers, artists and musicians. The editors of Photo Techniques declined to produce a book luike this, and receiving no protests to doing the task myself, I did. At first, I gave these books to individuals whom I believed would benefit. I now make this available to anyone.