Joris Kivits from the Netherlands(荷兰) contributed "Puzzled" to the competition.
Brit Paul Hoggard sculpted this elephant using a technique called "soft pack," which means he didn't use any forms when packing the sand. "If you don’t know how to do the basics of soft pack, you know, you’ve not got it all. You have to be able to do the hard and the soft. And there a lot of the sculptors that only concentrate on the hard," Hoggard said.
"Krazy" the clown was inspired by a character in a movie that Quebec's Marc Lepire watched with his son. The day before this photo was taken, the clown had hair on both sides of his head, but a bird landed on one side and collapsed that part of the sculpture. Lepire compensated by carving the skull open and exposing the clown's brains.
"Magnetic Feels" was built by Fergus Mulvaney of Ireland. When asked about the temporary(短时间的) nature of sand sculptures, Mulvaney replied, "No material lasts forever. Even the amazing Roman or Mesopotamian(美索不达米亚的) sculptures are slowly deteriorating(恶化，变坏). And like most things in the world right now, the most exclusive things are the ones you can’t have. So this makes it even more special and more exclusive. Nobody can have it."
Uldis Zarins of Latvia sculpted a piece called "It Was Just a Bad Dream."
Rich Varano of Florida contributed "Fanta Sea for Sue Sea" to the competition.
Benjamin Probanza of Mexico decided to call his sculpture "Untitled."
"Jimi" by Bill Dow of Montana was completed on Sept. 18, the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death.
Karlis Lle of Latvia dreamed up a sculpture called "Thru the Wall of Love."
The face seen in "Facing the Negative" by Wilfred Stiger of the Netherlands is actually a concave(凹的) part of the sculpture, rather than convex(凸的), so it appears lit from below.
"Distance Gives Perspective," which won first place in the doubles division, was sculpted by Martijn Rijerse from the Netherlands and Hanneke Supply of Belgium.