I like such photos, especially in sepia, since they have some kind of nostalgia for the past, when the first photographic steps were bein made, in a less complicated world.
The scene is here very well fitting for the coloring, since it acts like a wide angle, where the feeling of distance comes to play - distance in space and distance in time, to the past.
Wondering what might all that people do now, that worked or lived there, how they spend their days, what their lives look like on that place by the waves and the wind.