I will expand the subject to cover all of photography - because there ARE boring photographs in all areas of photography. In fact i would say that probably 9 out of 10 shots are boring across the board. My point is though that 999 out of 1000 nature photographs are boring. And that goes for Ansel Adams too. His shots are devoid of feelings if you ask me. They rarely stir anything in me when i look at them. That is not to say that they are not beautiful - on the contrary. But beauty is NOT automatically interesting. In fact, almost never.
OK. Some will admit they make photographs that are basically copies of, say, what Adams did and then excuse them by saying, they will only look at them themselves. Bullshit. Every photographer wants to show of what they do. Even those that are very shy in that regard. Take for instance the recently discovered work by the late Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work which she kept for herself for 40 years. I have no doubt that she would have loved to see her photographs receiving the recognition they are about to now. Just look at those selfportraits made from reflections in store-windows etc. She is hoping that someone will discover her.
Photography is all about emotions. Not lions or sunsets.
mysticcowboy - that "nature shot" with the tyre in it, actually says something to the viewer. It could be seen as a comment on the pollution and general "throw away" mentality of moderne civilization. The angle of the shot makes me think that you really did not want to take the shot or at least you did not want to emphasize the tyre too much. Why not go all the way and really put the tyre on display. And maybe if you waded around the object a bit, you would be able to put other objects within the shot that could enhance the meaning of it, by some sort of relation (Industry, highway, fishing boat, whatever, in the other half of the shot) .. just an idea
Photography is, finding that bit of truth, that lies around just to be found, and condense it into a photograph