It seems silly to call it a "landscape" when it's mostly water (...and that includes the clouds of course!).  This is the featured photo for June - a "waterscape" taken in Cape Cod earlier this year.

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Obviously the first thing that appealed to me was the symmetry of that central cloud with it's reflection neatly bracketing the "island" (technically a headland, I think).

The other aspect is the color. As you can see, the photo is split horizontally with the top half being more influenced by the blues of the sky while the lower part shows a warm beige tint from the sand which lies just inches below the surface of the water. The waters' edge is just out of shot, but you know it's there - the boundary of land and sea is implied.

By giving the viewer both this (implied) near and far (island) reference points - the distance is made to seem unimaginatively vast - and that far land becomes an exotic, desirable, but ultimately out-of-reach destination.

Hmm. Maybe it IS all about land after all...