Getting things in Perspective

Yay for Picasa. It enables me to quickly serve the needs of the blogging world while quickly doing a write up of interesting pictures. Seriously, though... as Mac user... it has to be pretty good to gush over a piece of software that only runs on a PC... so I won't... but try it... you will be amazed.

So anyway, this shot is from the International SandCastle Competition... and I thought this sand sculpture was so cool for the way it used perspective. In actual fact, that sculpture is just a flat wall, but it's sculpted in such a way to give it this incredible depth... how many of you were actually fooled into thinking it was a 3D sculpture... okay, technically all sculptures are 3D but this one is totally FLAT! the rest of the sculture was cool too... really though you had to close one eye to see it in perspective.

Interestingly, apparently Ocean sand sucks for this stuff... it's too rounded. The more silty and less "worked" the sand is by tidal or river forces, the better. It sounds like the science of making snowmen to me... you know that snow that really sucks for making stuff... and the stuff that's great for making iceballs and throwing them at people? Sure you all know...
well winter's just around the corner, you better keep your eyes out for me and my cold snow arsenal.