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They Stood Against the Sky · Original Short Story ·
Organised by RogerDodger
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Expedition’s End
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#1 ·
· · >>GroaningGreyAgony
This is an interesting photoshop job. The left pair of footprints is done well, but the right pair is in a patch of differently colored rock.

Unfortunately, the footprints are placed in such a way that they make no sense; nothing leads to or from them.
#2 ·
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Trying to portray the past-tense aspect of the prompt, I see. Good Shoop work. The little figures and their rope left from climbing the mesa look plausible.
#3 · 2
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>>Moosetasm

Expedition’s End

I had a lot of fun planning and executing this one, and placing the little figures. I’m disappointed that it got so little attention.

The patch of differently colored rock is in the original. I see why you might think I did a sloppy job of pasting the prints in. I mainly meant what I hinted at in my fake review, that whatever it was that left those footprints, they were standing against the sky, and the fact that they are now gone I meant to be ominous. I might have gotten more mileage out of suggesting that giants climbed the mesa at the point where the rocks look crumbly, but I’m not sure it would have made a difference.

The main image is from Google Earth, which has a very nicely detailed 3D map of Monument Valley. I picked Eagle Mesa (Google Maps link). The people and footprints were taken from free sources online, and the climbing rope was simply drawn on.

Onward and upward. See you next round!