Our Apprentice says…

Heavy thunderstorms had rolled over the sun, creating soft shadows across the beach. There were still moments when the sun peeked through thinner cloud, and this gave me the opportunity to focus on the patterns in the sand. The soft but still-quite-direct sunlight cast softly defined shadows on the backside of the rifts. The f/16 aperture meant the entire scene was sharp, from the foreground sand to the very last wooden upright, and the shutter speed at 1/15 sec kept definition in the thunderclouds at the back of the frame. Using the leading lines from the stanchions and the patterns in the sand, I created two diagonal lines, which juxtaposed themselves in the final shot.