Does anyone honestly think that looking at his images will improve their photography? Nobody can hope to replicate them mostly because they were taken in a bygone era. The "decisive moment" is simply plain common sense and luck is probably more important. Personally speaking most of my "best" images were luck and the planned ones never really came to fruition. It is simply all about looking and seeing.
What I think these images will do, is this: as with other genres, looking at what's possibly/probably up there amongst the best of whichever genres, will open the viewer's eyes to what's been/being done in the various photographic spheres. Then, from much looking, it becomes possible to discover the things that mean something to you, the individual.
Once you have overcome that quite large hurdle - you can't really
love everything, any more than you can love everyone - you are then in a mental position to think seriously about where you really want your own efforts to be directed.
Today, with the Internet, opportunity to explore and discover is incredibly wide. I began in a time when all that could be accessed was magazines, and they cost a lot when you only had a half-crown per week pocket money to live on... ;-)
I'm not, of course, aiming this post directly at stamper - he's been around long enough to know all this - I'm just pointing out to fresher, less experienced minds that the world of photography is huge, that you can't hope to excell at everything, and that time is always too short even if you are dealt the best hand of cards on the planet.
Please, discover what turns you on and pursue it!
Rob C