There are plenty of photographers who do tremendous work in landscapes without a Center of Interest, the 'I' in The Best Rice. But I'm certainly not one of them, and it's not that I haven't tried.
The Muench family and Michael Fatali, among my favorite landscape photograhers, keep turning out masterpieces, seemingly daily, that I just stare and marvel at. Many have no center of interest, but instead, let the eye wander from corner to corner, edge to edge, as I salivate at the colors, the textures and locations.
When I grow up, I hope to shoot as well...
I've never had good luck at shooting without a center of interest. In this photo, taken in either the Canadian Rockies or the Yukon (I forget), the moose immediately grabs the viewers eye and then wanders to the snowy mountains in the background.
Try to find a single center of interest in a photo. Make it stand out with contrasting light, like this moose against the reflected lake, or with color or size. By the way, the 'C' in The Best Rice stands for contrast.
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