You generally cannot control the placement of objects in nature photography. But you can control the placement of your camera, and you should put it in the most interesting places. Also, these aren’t paintings and they’re near instantaneous to make, and near-zero effort when compared with a painting, so make tons and tons of them: all the angles, all the lighting, color, black and white, high grain and no grain, snap-snap-snap-snap-snap, and then pore over all six hundred of them in Darktable when you get home, and pick the best one or two.