Tim sees me as part of the landscape here, a lonely figure that gives his image scale incongruity. He titles his image simply “Photographer,” giving the image enough verbal context to define my purpose. Note how he waits until I stand astride the line where the sand ends and the shadow begins. In a way, he implies here that as photographers, we are often “pushing the edges” as we work, walking that tightrope between the reality before us and the power of our imaginations to transform it. (He also says in his caption that I was muttering the whole time I was working the image.” He is correct – sand dunes, particularly those trampled by dozens of other tourists, and populated by other photographers, are not my favorite subject matter.) I was able to make a worthwhile teaching image from here, however. You can see it in my Composition gallery by clicking on the thumbnail below: