TITLE: "Stirring up a dust storm"

The essence of this image is in it's action and drama. As the zebras chase each other playfully under the burning sun of a parched Amboseli lake-bed, they kick up the dry dust that adds to the movement in the image. Aesthetically, the image aims to use levels and curves to bring about a pleasing pattern. From afar, the image is a tri-layered one , with the white sky, the dark ground and the stripes and bands, sandwiched in between , both in the zebras and the striated amboseli lake-bed.

AUTHOR: Pallavi Laveti (India)