This caption sets the stage for what promises to be an interesting journey, and the photograph has some intriguing elements--having read the description for the photo essay as a whole, I found myself squinting to see if the white debris scattered on the ground is organic or manmade. That said, I would have appreciated more of an effort to thematize the picture so as to tie together its various elements or make the most important ones especially salient in the mind of the reader. I would also have liked more explanation, rather than merely description, of what the picture shows--why are the men harvesting sand, for example?
