Abstracting The Landscape

Anyone who has attended one of my field landscape workshops knows that I divide photographic opportunities into three categories —snapshots,postcardsandimages. What do I mean by this?
Snapshots:
These are the photographs that we all take when we have a camera with us and see something that catches our fancy. For the most part they are either anaide memoiror a means for us to share with others who weren't there what we saw at a given time and place.
When on a serious shoot these are hardly worth stopping for. But, if the time permits one can stop the car, take a shot and move on. They are rarely worth setting up a tripod for though.
Postcards:
Apostcardin my vernacular is a photograph worth taking, but one which one knows from the outset will never rise above beingjust another pretty picture. The reason for taking it is because either the subject or the light is so appealing that the photographer within simply has to capture the scene. It's likely worth setting up the tripod, and maybe...