For this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge we’re asked to display images that have a clear ‘three-dimensional’ structure: foreground, middle ground and background. I suppose that is the two-dimensional equivalent of a beginning, a middle and an end in a piece of fiction.

Anyway, I think this fits the bill. I took this photo on the Sir Bani Yas nature reserve in Abu Dhabi. It was about the time of golden hour but there was too much sand in the air on this day, so the whole world had a very hazy feel to it.

Fortuitously, this lone oryx walked into the frame and a flash of sunlight caught its swishing tail, creating a perfect foreground object. The line of gaff trees provided the middle ground and that mysterious pyramid shape (it’ just a hill) added interest to the background., which would otherwise have been just sand-laden air.

Lens-Artist Challenge: creating depth