The Strait of Messina

Film or digital?  I ask because the tonal transitions in the vicinity of the sun are very good, and usually that's the mark of film.  The exceptions occur when the sun is low and there is much haze in the air.  You offered no details when you posted.

I don't get a sense of your title.  What strikes me is a landscape that is largely OOF except for a couple of difficult-to-see plants in the near foreground.  Those two plants seem to be the reason for the photo, but their relative obscurity make the photo difficult for me to understand.

I think this image could benefit from the Photoshop CS shadow-highlight command to lighten the foreground.