Landscape photography is all about analysis, prediction and trial and error. Most of these fail more or less miserably and bring with them, inevitable, frustration.
But then you start again because, in the end, the right time, when all the elements work together and fit together perfectly as in a complicated jigsaw puzzle, has to come.
And then it is ecstasy, fulfilment, euphoria. One touches the sky with one finger, perhaps a beautiful sky made of red clouds, which spread a rosy hue never seen on freshly fallen snow.