If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.