This is a complex question and deserves much consideration, but for a few days all I could think of was this example from the Dilbert cartoon series:(posted 8541 days ago)Dilbert writes a poem and presents it to Dogbert:
DOGBERT: I once read that given infinite time, a thousand monkeys with typewriters would eventually write the complete works of Shakespeare.
DILBERT: But what about my poem?
DOGBERT: Three monkeys, ten minutes.
Scott Adams, Dilbert comic strip, 15 May 1989.
This is how I often feel about my photography; that it is nowhere near where I want it to be and is more-or-less the pure luck of clicking the shutter at the right instant. Or, to put my feelings the other way, I think that great photography takes planning and training and all the other things we talk about, whereas there are at least some photographs which are the result of being in the right place at the right time.