The village of Gourdon is known as “Nid d’Aigle” (eagle’s nest) because it was built on the top of a ravine. If you want to capture its essence you must use a wide-angle lens so you can get at least a part of the ravine into the frame. If you shoot in a crystal-clear day and there are no clouds in the sky, you face with a problem: how to “avoid the void”? Empty room in a photo is not necessarily a problem in my opinion, and in some shoots I don’t dislike big portions of deep blue sky; but I think it wouldn’t be good in this case. The problem can be easily solved by searching for a tree and letting it fill the void. I think it works particularly fine when the tree has no foliage (or it just has buds such as in this case) since you can still see the sky through.