Rooting Manor, Kent

It's not the amount of detail that matters, but how it fits within the whole picture. You have quite often drawn notes on my pictures to show how you would like them cropped, and I ignore most of your suggestions, because your sense of composition does not align with mine.

I don't know if there's any truth in the left-brained versus right-brained hypothesis, but, knowing that you're a stickler for rules, might I suggest that perhaps your chimney is dividing the picture in half, rather than being on these thirds you're always banging on about.

1. Ditto.

2. I don't quote or apply rules. I merely make observations.

Not quite ditto, because you do sometimes take notice of my crops, as you have with your photo of Little Chesterton.

Where I agree with them, yes. In most of those cases the pictures were taken in a hurry because I was in a walking group and getting left behind, and edited and uploaded in (too much of) a hurry at the end of a long day.