This image pretty much breaks all the rules...photographically speaking. Look at it....house almost perfectly centred, fence post cutting into the image and that ugly wire out of focus fence.....
But you put all the elements in this image together and it works. The sloping horizon line behind the house, trees fill the corners building up the image with the clouds in the back-ground, it all starts to fill-in the rule of thirds.
Now the fence and post make sense.
I saw this image with-in seconds..thats how my photographic brain works!!!! You can do this too....really you can....