Today's picture of choice.....

Low Tide, St Ives, Cornwall by Paul Dixon

Living in a rural coastal village, this sort of scene is very familiar to me, but I love Paul's handling of the subject. He has handled the lighting of the subject very skillfully, utilising both the foreground reflections and the heaviness of the sky in the right upper corner to guide the eye to the main focal point of the painting....the resting boats, waiting for the inevitable return of the tide to lift them up and give them movement and life again. All in all it's a very nice painting and would (in my opinion) look at home in any sort of environment - either traditional or contemporary.