So what makes

So what makes a good photograph?. There are many different answers to this question and many different photographers will happily give you their opinion. Some say composition, others it might be subject, perhaps another answer would be light or fill the frame, lets not forget negative space, some might suggest it is about the amount of post processing required to get the idea out, Black and White over Colour. For me it is Gesture or you could say the Soul of the image and I believe there is gesture and soul in everything, you just have to learn to see it. Sometime as in the images on this page, the gesture/soul is for me easy to see, it was the cheeky look on the Samoan boys face or the wee girl below.

There is no quick recipe for achieving this it takes time, your soul looking at the subjects soul, now that just might create a good photograph.
As Jay Maisel said-"if it does not excite you the thing that you see, how in the world are you going to excite me."