Formal composition plays an essential role in the analytic and synthetic process described in an earlier Note.[1]  A sense of composition, an attention to formal detail, can serve to reveal both the order and disorder inherent in the subject (in other words, the level of entropy).  This is because the formal structure of an image suggests that there is an order here, an internal logic to the visual scene, but that this order is only part of the story.  The order, because it is incomplete, calls attention to the disorder – often the most interesting part of the image.  A suggestion of partial and incomplete symmetry in tension with an image’s asymmetrical elements can result in powerful clarity.  In short, a photograph’s formal composition can tell what the visual scene is actually about, in the sense of how it works from a visual perspective (as opposed to the particular subject matter).  In this sense, a photograph is always about the relationships of the visual elements depicted in the photograph.