The picture below is from a 2015 autumn photoshoot at Sellicks Beach, a southern coastal beach in Adelaide:
Photographing the coast is an example of how photography has appropriated the language of painting---in this case the landscape, in which nature is seen for its own sake. The pictorial representation of the landscape in painting emerges in the 17th century in Europe and reaches its peak in nineteenth century with Romanticism. The genre 'landscape' is a way of seeing and there are different views of the land--eg., those of the aboriginal people, white settlers, tourists etc.