No doubt photography is an art but but location and natural or artificial built up is required to make photographs looks really special.
when location is artificially made than more importance should be given to person who prepared that situation rather than photographer....that's my view.
One such situation is shown above. look at the pics and decide...there are the pics of Las Palmas island location which is located in Canary Islands.
Note: I didn't mention name of beach, try to find out same. its really interesting.