Sunlight floods a spruce forest near Nunkirchen.

I just discovered such subjects in your gallery on your website. The paintings look great. But now a question. What is more difficult to realize, such a forest motif photographically or painterly? I have been interested in this for a long time.
I have been dealing with the question for a long time. Is it more difficult to translate a subject into a photo or into a painting?
For example, today was such a fantastic day that Mont Blanc appeared right behind Geneva. Around 8:00 PM it was the "Mt. Rouge." But I had to work and had no opportunity to capture it as a suitable photographic motif. Tomorrow I want to hike up the 1718m high Crêt de Neige. It will probably be dull then and I will no longer have this clear view over Lake Geneva, Geneva, the Rhône-Alpes all the way to Mont Blanc. But I imagine that you painters could combine both motifs (clear and dull) into one. Am I wrong?
Best regards
André Breutel