Officer, I've had nothing to drink today but water.

As your prints get bigger your viewing distance increases. Lower ppi at greater distances don't look much different from higher ppi at a close viewing distance. Think about billboards you see from hundreds of feet away.

Very cool picture. What were the technical details?

Go as early in the morning as you can providing there's light of course. It becomes more difficult to photograph as the bus loads of tourists arrive. Make lots of exposures.

It looks like this only concerns what your child produces, not you. Or am I missing something?

These were shot on medium format Tmax 100 film and printed on Agfa 118. A red filter was used to bring out the sky/cloud contrast.

Sorry. Didn't mean to step on toes.

Nice work. Here are some desert pictures I made from the Atacama Desert in Chile.

I have been using the 3880 for two years. I think it is a great printer and very economical with the pigment cartridges. I'm actually still on my first set and I make a lot of prints.

A photographer is only as good as his ability to redact.

Check your focus. Things look soft.
Watch your foreground depth of field. While a backround blur is often a good thing, foreground blur can be distracting.
If the tree is the point of view why is so much of the picture rock?
Sometimes what looks good in your eyes doesn't work in a photograph. I've got thousands of pictures that just didn't work out.
Try getting closer, change your perspective, try different crops.
Move on. There's lots of landscape out there. Make lots of pictures. Most important, to learn what makes a good photograph look at good photographs. Start with a google search of "Masters of photography"

Good luck.

Not sure what you're trying to do here. There are a lot of technical and aesthetic problems with this image. What are you trying to convey?

What Canon software did you use to blur the backround?