Interesting discussion and crossing of swords
I sometimes provoke my workshop students by saying that composition is the most overrated concept in photography!
What do I mean by that? Basically even the best composed photograph does not spark any interest in viewers (IMHO) unless there is some content that sparks the interest. Composition is just presentation. Technique, the technical taking of the picture is a given and can occupy many soles and some seem to think this is very important. It is, but it does not make a photo. Similar with composition. It is important but does not make the photo. Content does and for e.g. landscape photography, the content is the landscape with the light, the visual objects that the photographer would like to show to the viewer. Composition is the arrangement of the visual objects inside the frame. Basically the presentation and the content is what the photographer sees and gets awed by so he wants to compose a shot. Even a lesser composed shot can be way more interesting than a perfectly composed shot of something uninteresting. Some may include more or less in what composition is.