“Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.”
– Edward Weston

Some great pictures are the result of great effort. I mean, think about what it took for Carleton Watkins to get all the way out west when he did, and what was involved with working with those huge glass-plate negatives. On the other hand, there isn’t necessarily any relationship between how hard you worked to get a picture, and how good that picture is. It’s a bit of a joke among my friends that I’m not especially enamored of hiking, I like to photograph during the middle of the day, and I’ve occasionally been known to shoot right out the car window. In fact, at least one of the black-and-white landscapes I liked enough to include in the Iceland portfolio was shot that way – while the car was moving ; )