Take a windy day and a fine stiff blade of beach grass (or two), laying close to the surface of the sand and you get wind writing, vaguely oriental, certainly recording a message of mysterious importance.

One of the things I love about advanced Point and Shoot cameras is the spontaneity. See the image. Zoom and frame the image. Capture the image. Just that fast. It puts the grab in grab shots…but with enough quality to make for serious photography. And you are ready for anything, just about always. Even wind writing in the sand.

For this shot I zoomed the Canon SX40HS out to about 138mm equivalent field of view and shot from a standing position at the exposure Program and iContrast provided: f4.5 @ 1/1250th @ ISO 100.

Processed in Lightroom for Intensity and Sharpness.