Thought this was pretty cool and makes for a good silly Tuesday photo! Over the weekend this bulldozer type machine was picking up the pipes used on the beach for dredging. With the sand pouring out looking like smoke and ashes and the angle the pipe was being lifted it looked to me  like this bulldozer was smoking a cigarette.

This rock was overflowing with colors and life. It was sort of like its own little planet with its own ecosystem!

About a week or so ago I was dog sitting for my brothers pug puppy (you can see a photo of him much younger here) and decided to take him to the beach! It was his first time there and he had a blast. He would run towards the waves when they went out and run away when they came in. Also as you can see he loved digging around in the sand with his nose!

I just realized that today is the 2 year birthday of my photoblog!! Wow I cant believe its been two years already. Time flies. I want to thank all the regular commenters  and visitors as without your encouragement I doubt I would still be posting photos! I really do appreciate your visits and comments alot! Here is hoping this coming year on Fotoblography.com  is a good one and the camera keeps clicking.

-Andy

I processed this shot pretty heavily and eventually decided I liked this one the most. It has a sort of desolate feel to it that I liked. What do you think did I over-process it?

I just want to thank everyone for the great replies and response to my last post about the People of Haiti. And I want to thank you for any donations you gave to Compassion or another charity towards Haiti. If you are still thinking about donating to help the people of Haiti please click the banner below.

Since this is my first post of 2010 I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year!  Hope its a great year for us all!

I took this photo on July 4th at Salisbury Beach in Salisbury MA. I could not decide if I should crop out the beach next to the wall or not but I finally decided to leave it.

Some kids playing with Sparklers at the beach while waiting for the July 4th Fireworks to start.

Wonder if he found any buried treasures?

Taken Memorial Day Weekend at Hampton Beach NH.

This photo of the Seagull with his reflection in the wet sand was taken at Hampton Beach, NH.

Here is another shot from Hampton Beach from a couple of weeks ago. I got down on my knees to try and show some of the incoming waves at eye level. Granted the waves are not very big but I still liked the shot.

I took this photo the same day that I took the photo of the foggy sailboat race that I posted last week. I am sure the lifeguard had to pay extra close attention to the people in the water with this thick fog.

Here is a shot of one of the master sand sculptors from last weekend hard at work perfecting his sculpture. If you click the image to make it larger you can see he is actually making the eyebrow in this shot.

I could post these sand sculpture photos forever if I keep posting only one a day and I don’t want people to get bored. So I decided to make a gallery with the the rest of my favorites so I am not only posting sand sculpture pictures for the next month! Hopefully everyone has enjoyed these sand sculpture photos. Just click on the thumbnails of the photos in the gallery below to make them bigger. » Continue Reading…

Here are the master sand sculptors hard at work.

There was an advertising area for sponsors of the event that all of the sand sculptors worked on together in between working on their individual contest entries. This is one of my favorites of the sand ads! This is the final form of the monkey that I posted last week. It ended up alot different then I would have imagined based on the early version. I had no idea he would be riding on an elephant!

On Saturday I went to the annual Hampton Beach sand sculpture contest. The works of art that the sculptors made out of sand were amazing to say the least. This one of the sun I think was my favorite sand sculpture of the contest.

Over the next few days I will be posting some more of my favorite shots from the sand sculpture contest so be sure to come back.

Well I just got back from Hampton Beach again. I ended up going back to Hampton Beach today because I really wanted to see how the sand sculptures turned out that I posted about last week.  I took so many photos of them that I don’t have time to go through them right now and pick one to post. I still wanted to post a photo so instead here is one that I really liked from today of  a lifeguard station on the beach. I really liked the intense orange color against the blue sky and ocean.

I will start to post some of my favorite sand sculpture shots starting tomorrow so stay tuned.

I was walking on the beach and came upon an odd site. A tire that was in good shape just sticking out of the sand as if it where one of the rocks nearby it. I am not sure how it got there maybe it washed ashore? Strange how it was perfectly standing there though.

There was not much sand on this beach in Maine so some ingenious people decided to build rock castles instead of sand castles! Of least these should be a bit more sturdy then their sand castle counterparts and harder for troublemakers to destroy to. I kneeled down at eye level with the castles to get the view of the ocean from the castles perspective. Hmm I wonder if these castles rent rooms with ocean waterfront views like that!