Using a fish eye lens at the beach
One of the things that can make your photographs look unique is to use a fish eye lens. In this image I used a 10-17 tokina lens at 10 mm. The camera was a Nikon D300. In this image the water in the foreground and the clouds in the back ground give a nice balance.
For an even more unique look I cropped like this.
Same view but with less foreground and sky
Which do you like better?