1) Buy the best camera you can afford. I had one of the cheap ones do a meltdown on my counter this weekend.

2) Make sure the batteries are good or the camera may not rewind the film even though it says it has.

3) Make the camera scent free when you put it out in the woods. I had the same bear pull my camera off the same tree two years in a row. The second time he bit a hole in the camera flash.

4) As others mentioned earlier, know where the sun will be.

5) I set my timing on the lowest possible time setting when it's on a trail and much longer when it's at a mineral block or at my feeder up north.

I have lots of pictures of deer, moose, wolves, etc. that I would be happy to post, but I'm not very good with a computer.