My point here, Frank, is you cannot provide a quick-and-dirty recipe to show how a given scene is to be transformed into a photograph. I have nothing against telling exactly how this photo came into existrence, but to what ends?
The eyes see the scene elements, the brain does the pre-visualisation, and the camera and its lens register your idea. How is that to be conveyed in a meaningful step-by-step cooking-book like description?
As I stated earlier, we are effectively *blind* unless we allow ourselves to forego any preset ideas for whatever potential a scene has, and start discovering it instead. There is nothing more boringly unproductive for a photographer than stating "there is nothing to shoot here" or "I have shot this scene before, now let's move on".
In fact, the oldest trick in the book when you feel uninspired and apparently cannot make a photo, is just sitting still at a given spot and don't think of anything at all. Sooner or later your mind begins to connect to the surroundings and ideas of images commence to appear out of the blue. Trust me, I have done that so many times myself to know this always works if you just allow yourself the required time, be it 5 minutes or 5 hours.
