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Mike,

I have placed some photo's on my personal gallery.
they are sandsculptures.
I have always a problem to make the sand color right.
the sand is not ordinairy see-sand but river-sand.
I would place the orginals on the challenge-page, so that others can trie it to make it better then I have done it today.
I have lot of sandsculptures from the early days, witch  I would also better.
But , first  I like to hear or these from to day are good, or not and how I can  do it better.

Frits

Interesting images.  I think one of them would make a good challenge image.  This one is my favorite:
http://www.curvemeister.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-755

Meantime people are welcome to post improved versions to this thread, or to their own albums.

Here is my take on one of your delightful sand sculpture images.  I used the "lizard tail" move to add much more texture to the coffin lid (great theme for a sand sculpture, BTW!), and added contrast to some of the detailed work in the middle of the image. 

Since you mentioned that this is river sand, I went for a brown color, which turned out to be about the same color, but more saturated than the original color.

The curve file should be in the image - use alt-O to access it, and I've attached the acv file itself.

I would like to encourage others to post their interpretations.  If Fritz will post a slightly larger version, I'll make it one of the challenge images.  This is not the final word in how to correct this image, and I believe others will have different, and better interpretations using curves and other tools - sharpening for example.

Mike,

you have done it nice.

But this is the orginal picture.
that 's to say: I have sized the real orginals tot make them less 200k.
the real orginal's , I thrown them away.
Of course I have first done them  all with Curvemeister before making them less big.
I have made a sand pinfile first and used this on all the photo's
Frits

These are the orginal shrinked Sandcolored pictures I have made yesterday on the beach of Scheveningen.

Frits

From picture 4 , I made  a sand-pinfile from his leg and used it over nearly all pictures.
The results from that are in the User Gallery.

Frits

More sandsculptures:

Still more sandsculptures:

More sandsculptures:

more sandsculptures: