I like the lines in this photo, would prefer something chaotic: a pigeon, plane, breaking the somewhat sterile squares.

During one of my nightshifts I scrolled through hundreds of Cartier-Bressons photos: most pretty great, but most of them had broken "composition rules":

• cut off people and structures
• most of it not in complete focus
  -etc
  I only look if a photo " works" for me. If it doesn't, THEN I go back to rules and see how I would take a better photo next time.

Thanks for the thought provoking post!