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at Norah Head, NSW, Australia
Olympus E-M5 / Clubman 28mm f2.8
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Lots of tracks in the sand during this trip to Death Valley in January, but I guess that's just a reason to go back. If anybody really enjoys using the clone tool in Photoshop, lemme know and you'll have the time of your life fixing this one up!
Dunes have always fascinated me because of their textures and geometries, colours and contrasts. They are mobile, forming and reforming and it's just never the same when you get there. They are like waves in water, just much much slower. An then there is life, little grasses and little flowers or bones. Well, step back from the image and discover the track of a tinny creepy crawler. I find it amazing how it stands out.
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According to the National Park Service, recent rates of erosion along parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks have been as high as 10 to 15 feet in a year.
MESQUITE FLAT SAND DUNES DEATH VALLEY CALIFORNIA
The early morning light and shadows bring out the details of the dunes while individual grains of sand sparkle like stars against a colored background.
This alcove is one of the great hidden gems in the Wave (Coyote Buttes North) area and is on par with the Wave. The patterns and colors on the walls are unique. Other than the alcove, a sand dune rises from the center. We hiked to the top of sand dune to take some cool photos.
One thing I love about desert photography is how simple and clean the compositions can be. To further accentuate this effect, I used a telephoto lens to compress it against the glowing sand dune behind it.
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The shot is taken on the way from Tabas to Khoor, where everything is wonderful and terrible simultaneously.
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I shot this collection of photographs at White Sands during twilight, some in the early morning hours, but most in the evening. When the sun is below the horizon, the dunes and sky take on a magical presence. The dunes reflect the sky which can range from warm to cool, and there is a magical fifteen minutes when the sky away from the compass point of sunrise or sunset develops a glow of reds and oranges.
In late October, I made a trip to New Mexico to shoot the dunes at White Sands National Park. I hooked up with my close friend and photographer, Sandra Herber. www.flickr.com/photos/sandraherber/ We were at White Sands four days, made eight excursions into the dunes, hiked over 20 miles and shot close to 2,000 photos between us.
We are posting our images at the same time and it will be interesting to see how we handled being in the same locations together. For safety reasons and for the fun of it, we hiked the dunes together, sometimes pointing our lenses in the same direction, other times wandering apart. I am sure we got some similar shots, but it will be interesting to see those that are different as we each have our own way of looking at things, as well as having different focal length coverage. Then there is the processing aspect.
To say White Sands is magical is an understatement. As photographers, we talk about the light, emphasize the light, are critical about the light. The dunes at White Sands react in amazing ways to the change in light, offering different looks, revealing various personalities. It is this diversity of the dunes that I wanted to capture then, and present here now.
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Eureka sand dunes at Death Valley National Park, where it's only about a few hours away from the snowy Sierra Nevada and only a day's drive from the Pacific ocean. Only in California.
The red sand dunes are slowly covering up this dead tree. A shot from my recent trip to the Flinders Ranges in South Australia
Color version does have a lot more detail specially the subtle shades of blue up in the sky. Shooting dunes after rain and enjoying the untouched sand is such a great pleasure...
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Spent the afternoon yesterday at the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. What a workout to walk on the Dunes. It was a calm day around the park and campgrounds, but out on the Dunes the wind was whipping up the sand within its wave like features. This is the Southeast edge of the Dunes. Distance is deceiving, between the Dune and the mountain BG are miles of Dunes
Last sunset light washing over the Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley) near San Pedro, with a view of the Anfiteatro (Amphitheater) from the Duna Mayor, Atacama desert, Chile.
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