Ree, The Pioneer Woman, is having a contest and you have to upload a picture to her Flickr Pool that demonstrates Depth of Field. I uploaded this picture.
I took this on the beach at Cape Tribulation, north of Port Douglas. The beach is home to little hermit crabs, and when the tide goes out they bury themselves into the sand. We saw a couple of them burrowing down, and as they go they turn their bodies and corkscrew downwards. The process of digging produces these little balls of sand, which are then deposited on the beach, all within throwing distance (for a crab) of the hole.
Here’s another picture of the little crab balls, shot from above. See the hole in the middle? There’s a crab in there.
These little arrangements of crab balls looked a bit like fireworks, bursting in the sky.
Some of them reminded me of that time it was my family’s turn to take the Preschool Lamb home with us on the weekend and it shat all over the garage floor and my Dad got very upset and we never got to take the Preschool Lamb home again.
Some of the little crab-miners preferred to deposit their balls in neat little piles. This appealed to the unclutterer in me.
That’s cool! Love the photos.