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Storm's-A-Brewin' [Explore]
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve just causes cognitive dissonance to me. How this enormous sand dune exits on the high Colorado Plateau (over 7500' in the San Luis Valley) at the base western base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range can be explained by geologists, but it simply doesn't resonate with my concept of Colorado's topography.
On a road trip through Colorado, my wife and I stopped here for a brief visit to check out the dunes up close. Since it was late in the day, we did not go sand sledding, but we did climb a remote slope on the eastern side of the dunes, which was far more difficult than one might imagine.
Seeing the gathering storm clouds and having a tight travel timeline, we decided to depart the park well before sunset, with a brief stop along the entrance road, where I photographed this lone tree looking back across the valley past the dunes toward Mount Herard and the rest of the Sangre de Cristo Range. 30 minutes later, the area was awash in rainstorms.
Congrats on Explore!
Recognition:
Accepted for Display - SEP 2023 Darkroomers Photographic Club at the Photographic Arts Building in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
Storm's-A-Brewin' [Explore]
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve just causes cognitive dissonance to me. How this enormous sand dune exits on the high Colorado Plateau (over 7500' in the San Luis Valley) at the base western base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range can be explained by geologists, but it simply doesn't resonate with my concept of Colorado's topography.
On a road trip through Colorado, my wife and I stopped here for a brief visit to check out the dunes up close. Since it was late in the day, we did not go sand sledding, but we did climb a remote slope on the eastern side of the dunes, which was far more difficult than one might imagine.
Seeing the gathering storm clouds and having a tight travel timeline, we decided to depart the park well before sunset, with a brief stop along the entrance road, where I photographed this lone tree looking back across the valley past the dunes toward Mount Herard and the rest of the Sangre de Cristo Range. 30 minutes later, the area was awash in rainstorms.
Congrats on Explore!
Recognition:
Accepted for Display - SEP 2023 Darkroomers Photographic Club at the Photographic Arts Building in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA