# Flowing with the sand

**URL:** <https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flowing-with-the-sand/45913>\
**Category:** Image Critiques\
**Tags:** weekly-challenge\
**Created:** [March 17, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flowing-with-the-sand/45913 "2025-03-17T22:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![tamar-aharony](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/tamar-aharony/32/41708_2.png) [@tamar-aharony](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/tamar-aharony)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flowing-with-the-sand/45913/1 "2025-03-17T22:08:06Z")

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### Image(s)

 ![flowing with the sand.jpg](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/8/6/8689f015134d3bd08e07f1d3734aad2228f8cc02.jpeg)

### Image Description

This image was taken on a san diego beach where I have taken many pictures before but I have always visited san diego in the fall when the tide is high and the beach is small. This time I was able to get there in winter (in december) when the tide was very low. This exposed me to a whole new area of beach where the water created all these wonderful shapes in the sand. I play around quite a lot on this beach during my week there and this is one I liked how it turned out.

### Feedback Requests

I don’t often convert to black and white so I wanted to know if it works in BW and whether it is too busy and you can see the composition there.

### Pertinent Technical Details

Sony a7c, 70-300 tamaron lens, iso 64 f/11 1/80. Aside from converting to BW I also did some doging and burning to emphasize the shapes.

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Seaver](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/mark_seaver/32/231_2.png) [@Mark\_Seaver](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Mark_Seaver)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flowing-with-the-sand/45913/2 "2025-03-24T14:58:16Z")

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Tamar, this works just fine in B&W, as that emphasizes the textures and the flow lines in the sand. As I study this, I particularly like the shapes and textures in the lower left and their diagonal movement across the frame.