I've been trying to shoot some landscape and stock photos for the last couple of month and I just can't seem to get it. This should be so easy I see these images the have so much depth. I mean the clouds are just coming at you. So I try to do the same and mine are so flat and bla! I read that you have to include a foreground to lead your eyes but I just don't know where I'm going wrong. Here is a image I took today of the USS Utah which I tried to include the foreground but this is terrible. Any advice is appreciated. I'm also having issues with vignetting from my lens hood.

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hi we can't see you photo :-( rick p.s. you may be using the wrong lens hood :-(