Landscape photo project

Urban landscape, Swiss Cottage, November 2009

"You must use the lens that will bring out the best composition. This is accomplished by becoming familiar with the perspective of your lenses. That comes from experience. I tend to shoot more with telephoto lenses because I like to pull the little compositions from the greater landscape before me. Telephotos not only isolate and allow me to eliminate distracting elements, they allow me to get compositions and subject matter that nobody else has. I can stand at one spot and shoot 20 different landscapes...With telephotos, I get a lot of private compositions." Art Wolfe

Apparently most people use wide-angle lenses for landscape photography. This is the lens I have:

"The Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens f/3.5-5.6 is a wide-angle to mild telephoto zoom lens for digital single-lens reflex cameras with an EF-S lens mount. The field of view has a 35 mm equivalent focal length of 28.8-88mm, and it is the standard kit lens on Canon's consumer DSLRs."

I read somewhere that landscape photos should be dynamic, not static. It's difficult to see on this reproduction but there are quite a few figures in my Swiss Cottge photo above - a few on the ground and a couple of workers on top of a building on the left. I don't know if it works, but I hope that by having some figures, especially those working on a building, this makes the picture less static. It was a very grey, damp day - probably not ideal light conditions! Rain stopped play.