Photography is simply a function of noticing things.
Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.
You don't study photography, you just do it.
All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.
Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.