I had a photo of a boat on this strip of sand from Martha's Vineyard. Really wanted to paint on an 10x20 canvas but once I finished the water, it was immediately apparent that the boat was not a good fit on this canvas where it was located in the photo. Thought about moving the boat to another location but that was not going to produce an image that I would be happy with. So I added shore birds, an egret and my favorites, sanderlings.