Marsel van Oosten
Algerian Arch Angels III
Last month I was Highly Commended in the Travel Photographer Of The Year Awards for a series of 4 images that I shot in Algeria.
This is the third image from that series.
This arch was so deep that it was almost a short tunnel. Photographing these rock arches in Algeria was great fun, but searching for them was just as enjoyable. We usually just drove in the direction of mountains or large rock formations and used our binoculars to scan the horizon, searching for small dots of light that could indicate the presence of an arch.
After a couple of weeks we became really good at recognizing the best kind of rock for arch formation and at spotting them from great distances. Some of the arches took us an entire day to get to, as the terrain is almost impossible to cross with a car. With this one we were quite lucky, as it was easy to get to.
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If you're interested in joining us on one of our photo tours, please check out my website for more tour dates, images, video clips, and more:
Squiver Photo Tours & Workshops
Marsel
©2015 Marsel van Oosten, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
Algerian Arch Angels III
Last month I was Highly Commended in the Travel Photographer Of The Year Awards for a series of 4 images that I shot in Algeria.
This is the third image from that series.
This arch was so deep that it was almost a short tunnel. Photographing these rock arches in Algeria was great fun, but searching for them was just as enjoyable. We usually just drove in the direction of mountains or large rock formations and used our binoculars to scan the horizon, searching for small dots of light that could indicate the presence of an arch.
After a couple of weeks we became really good at recognizing the best kind of rock for arch formation and at spotting them from great distances. Some of the arches took us an entire day to get to, as the terrain is almost impossible to cross with a car. With this one we were quite lucky, as it was easy to get to.
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If you're interested in joining us on one of our photo tours, please check out my website for more tour dates, images, video clips, and more:
Squiver Photo Tours & Workshops
Marsel
©2015 Marsel van Oosten, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.