I think this exercise shows why I have chosen photography for my art rather than doing my own painting.  This is my sketch of what one might expect from a landscape scene.

I chose to draw what I think of as a classic landscape scene.  Hills in the background, with layers of mountains overlapping each other.  The is a river flowing down the centre of the picture. On the right there are sheep and there are trees dotted around the landscape. On the left there is a farm gate and fence.  

For me, this is a classic landscape scene, obviously if done properly.  Before starting my studies this is the kind of landscape (view?) that I would have been looking for. It is also the typical kind of landscape scene that you will find in landscape tutorials in consumer magazines; it is also the the typical landscape picture that you might have found painted by somebody like Gainsborough.  An example of one of my past images of this genre is shown below.

I chose to study this course with a bit of trepidation – as I have progressed through Level 1 of my studies, I have stopped taking images like this and instead have focussed more and more on people and on details with the landscape, I am particularly interested in the juxtaposition of things in relation to each other.

I hope that this course will re-ignite my interest in landscape photography, but help me evolve from images such as this and onto images that are more expressive, that say something about what I want to say rather than just what they look like.  Part of this course does seem to be that way inclined but I still think I will learn a lot.