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ghinson
Nov-23-2009, 04:04 PM
Seems to me there are two main ways to interpret this challenge. Have a picture that looks cool unexpectedly after a photographic error, or take a cool picture of something that seems to be an oops moment.

This is my attempt at the latter.

"Oops. Lowtide."

http://ackdoc.smugmug.com/Images/Sand-Water/OOPS-Lowtide/722190868_7YRKS-L.jpg

C&C appreciated.
WhatSheSaw
Nov-23-2009, 06:43 PM
I like it! It really speaks of the struggle. And makes me wonder how the species has survived so long.

The impression kind of looks like a face and beard.
JAG
Nov-23-2009, 09:14 PM
What is that anyway?

Nothing wrong with the image. The title makes the image be an opps...but still not sure what exactly that creature is? A crab? Some kind of stingray? or a coconut shell?
WhatSheSaw
Nov-23-2009, 10:28 PM
It is a horseshoe crab. They are actually an arthropod and more closely related to spiders than to crabs.
ghinson
Nov-24-2009, 02:01 AM
Horseshoe crab. I came upon it on a sunrise walk. The tide had receded. It was struggling in place to get back to water, hence the tracks. I picked it up to move it to water, when the tracks interested me. Took the picture, then moved it to deeper water.
ghinson
Nov-25-2009, 09:16 AM
The impression kind of looks like a face and beard.

I see the impression, and I think of Squidward, from SpongeBob fame.

(That's what happens to you when the house is full of little kids.)
lizzard_nyc
Nov-25-2009, 09:24 AM
I see the impression, and I think of Squidward, from SpongeBob fame.

(That's what happens to you when the house is full of little kids.)

:rofl Now all I see is Squidward--