This Week in Photography, a US based website and podcast that I follow, regularly runs photography competitions and I thought I should throw an image in the ring to see how it goes.

So I did. The theme of the competition was "Adventure". I was happy to see that I got runner up with the image I posted. Here is the page that announced the winners: TWIP’s Photo Assignment Competition

Here is the image:

I've had a few requests asking how the image was captured or whether it was heavily edited. The thing that people find strange or interesting is that the shadows of the sand boarders indicate that the sun is to the left of camera yet the sky seems to indicate that there is a light source from front-right of camera over the horizon.

Well, in a future post, I will describe exactly what I did to achieve that effect. No one has guessed right so far :) In fact, I will send a free 8x10 (inches) print of that image to everyone who sends me an email describing the technique(s) I used (be they in-camera or in post processing). Send your guesses to keith (at) keith rowell (dot) com.