cool! How did they do that?

I'm sure I have seen this before, or one like it. Was it before the crash?

I think the author pressed real light bulbs in the sand, removed them.. and placed lighted switches in the impression then took the picture.. that's my theory..hehehe.. loved to know the method

Very cool shot! best of luck to ya !

very neat

Drivenslush is almost right. Only the light are made by those little birthdaycake candles sticked completely into the sand.
Was my own idea, during some practical lesson.

What an amazing idea, and really well done!

Wonderful, will have to try this some time. Thanks for sharing. How dark was it when you did it.

Dark room only spotlight from the side to create the shadows.
High ISO to have short shuttertime (holding your camera too long above candles is not a good idea )

I knew those were candles. Clever idea! GL!

This is what I call being creative! Awesome.

absolutely mindblowin idea!!!
creative indeed
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very nice idea, I love the result..good luck

congratulations, great shot, and thanks for sharing how to. I suspect it's not as easy as it sounds.

congrats!!!

congrats for this special photo

Beautiful! Those detailed textures are simply amazing..gl

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

great capture of a wonderful piece of art. I would love to be able to see someone make something like this. All that work into something that just washes away, they must be keen

I grew up on an island where they had contests like this every year. Some of these people are amazingly talented. This is a good one

OMG! how do people do it! THis is awesome!!!!! GL!!!!

You were lucky to capture it! GL!

congos

congrats for the shared score at the first places

awesome job

What an amazing sculpture. And a really great angle to shoot this from too, well taken.

Agree with Ray, well taken! I can't believe that some people are able to do stuff like that with sand! Nice picture author and good luck

SAND???????

beautiful sand sculpture!

I love these sand scuptures. I'm so jealous of those who can do it

congosssssss

oh thx what a narrow result of this contest.

a master piece

a master piece

Outstanding catch. well done.

Really draws you in! Nice shot!

beautiful, the first really interesting photo.

Lovely shot..

incredible pic!!!

wow!

Marvelous!

Great pattern. Leads the eye

Great eye on this one! Angle is sooo nice

Definitely one of the best! It's like one giant fingerprint! Definitely have my vote for 1st! GL!

That's a pretty cool effect caused by that pipe (or whatever it is). Could've used a little deeper DOF

thank you. I have couple of shoot of this with deeper dof, but hardly recognizable what is on the picture.

Great DOF.
Love the leading line on the left.
Very good eye author!