This might help you out a little.

What they call the 5:00 ish shooting time is the golden hour, set your gear up and your shot by 4:30 lock off your tripod and wait for the right time, brick a reflector incase you have some shadows.

Also 7:00 can also be a golden hour too.

Avoid 3:00 because the sun is right above you & you get raccoon eyes, or in your cars, large hard shadows which aren't pretty.

Learn to frame your shots and horizon. comp* can not be thought, it'll have to come with experience.

Frame it right, shoot it properly with fstop and white balance, do little post work on it & you'll find out that photography isn't all that hard to take simple decent looking photos.