VA Beach Sandsculpting 2014

The Sandsculpting Championship was amazing yet again this year!

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I wondered why this gentleman had the opportunity to fix his sculpture. I later over heard people talking about how crabs had crawled all over his sculpture overnight, so they allowed him to put it back together.

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VA Beach Sandsculpting 2011

My beach vacation was timed around the Neptune Festival so I was able to see the artists actually work on their sandsculptures. I didn’t know they were allowed to use bases and wooden boxes for forms. Takes a little bit of the awe away, but still pretty darn amazing!

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Some before and after shots.

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Many of the sculptures were two, three, and even four-sided, meaning each side was a different sculpture. I didn’t necessarily walk around each one in order, so I hope I matched the fronts to the backs correctly.

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The rest I only took a picture of one side.

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