Photography ideas - big picture views versus the details

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I like taking photos - nice view of the great outdoors and I am quite happy.

Online I see some weird pictures that people take. Industrial buildings at all angles, railings that look like abstract art. Blocks of colour, weird shapes, coffee cups. You've all seen it.

Strikes me as odd that my photography appears to be about the bigger picture, with my favourite views having a lot of details in them, or an old building or folly.

My attempts at taking just the details fail miserably - as though I struggle with creating an abstract image.

Any thoughts or tips.

One technique is to use the perspective distortion of a wide angled lens to highlight a detail by putting it in the foreground. The background provides the context.

That stuff gets more like abstract art because the perspective is not obvious, so it is a way of getting dramatic looking shapes on a sheet of paper without using paint. Try closing one eye and looking through a rectangular hole at things.