Most times the shots are usually there, we just have to find them. But taking a camera w/ me to take pics means I look at everything differently. I mean, it would, right? We have to look closer at our prey. My first drawing teacher (who I hated, but she was right about this. And only this) would always answer the question "What do I draw?" with, "just draw what's in front of you right now".
Obviously if you're a LF landscape photographer you need the shot to be there, but you need to be able to see it too, not just look at it. Drawing really puts me in touch w/ what's in front of me. It's impossible to draw anything well w/o looking very closely at it, When we do that we see things that normally aren't noticed.......the many colors in shadows, how a tree limb isn't black, that's really a shadow on it, etc.