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Certainly has an artistic flare to it! I like how you can’t see the horizon in the distances, and the water back there is like a sea of diamonds.
In general, the image is overexposed. And I would guess the camera meter is the culprit.
Here’s why: notice how the center of the frame is in shadow and the top and bottom of the frame are in bright sunlight. The image appears overexposed because the shadow areas are correctly exposed; this leaves the highlight areas overexposed. And because the overexposed areas cover over half the image, its gives the impression that the entire image is too bright.
The camera metered the scene based on the amount of light starting at the center of the frame. Because the center of the frame is the shadow area (dark), the camera thought the entire image was dark and generated a combination of camera settings (aperture, shutterspeed, and ISO) to create what it thought was a correct exposure. And it would have been correct if the entire frame was in shadow area. But it’s not.
So that’s why I think the camera meter is the culprit. You can trick the camera by using Exposure Compensation (in this instance, using -1 or so) or Manual mode, setting your exposure to consistently take pictures that are exposed correctly to your eye, regardless of what brightness/darkness level there is in the center of your frame.
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