Imagine a wooden boat... No... an old wooden boat: worn, unloved, and left to the elements along a lake's edge. Now imagine further a photographer-of-sorts, who knelt and stared at this forsaken boat, first from one angle, and then from another, before eventually nodding as he lifted his camera to his eyes, and then squeezed the trigger. Replay multiple times.
Now I don't know what he saw in that old wreck, nor why it could be worth more than a cursory look and stare, but he obviously saw something I didn't, beauty after all is in the eye of the beholder. Enjoy.
(Pixel-Peepers: Try adding another dimension to your landscapes by anchoring them with a foreground of interest. Remember to keep your foreground and horizon in equal in focus. Hyper-focal focusing. Google it.)
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