I was in a pagan passion play in 2007, which was run by a local group of Greek mythology enthusiasts. During rehearsal, one of the women in cast did a remarkable job acting as a hot tempered goddess. I asked her how she learned how to do it. She frustratingly responded "A masters in acting."

The suggestion to return to design basics is short, vague, and not completely unhelpful. There are bunches of different ways to get back to the basics, paying attention to composition and equipment first would quickly solve the problem of how to take a good picture of a mountain like Mt. Tahoma.

If you don't like understanding principal design elements, just keep trying to take the picture in different ways until you're happy with the result. I don't know what to tell you otherwise, there is basically no info given to start giving better advice from.

As mentioned, the question is basically "how do I do photography". Learn the basics, watch YouTube videos of landscape photography introductions and generally intro to photography. Knowing how to use an ilc and what different lenses do is kind of the first thing you should learn.