Taken from a boat in Penn's Cave in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania. The water filled cave is the headwaters of Penn's Creek.
Shot RAW and converted using ACR. PP consisted of Curves, Shadow/Highlight, Hue/Saturation(to boost the reds), Resize and Sharpening in PSCS2 and noise reduction with Neat Image.
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I don;t feel it particularly matches the challenge, I would have liked at least a title about underground river, or maybe river's roots??? or some sign of water. The picture itself has a lot of intersting textures and colors and I really like the dof. My eye keeps going to the top left corner as the lightest areas, but that is also the least interesting part of the picture.
Pushing the beach motif a bit far here...hope the voters don't beat you up too badly for it. Nice capture, pleasing to see something a little different.