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Namib-Naukluft-Park, Sossusvlei, Namibia
Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, in a valley between the dunes in the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia.
"It's all about that little frozen moment in time. Between ascention and descent: Floating." - Kim Henry
From episode 149: youtu.be/n6Bfk5yZX7g
Shadows begin to shorten and the sun allows the detail on the 800 year old dead and blackened tree to show and add another wow factor.
Deadvlei is a clay pan, about 2 km from Sossusvlei. A notable feature of Deadvlei is that it used to be an oasis with several acacia trees; afterwards, the river that watered the oasis changed its course. The pan is thus punctuated by blackened, dead acacia trees, in vivid contrast to the shiny white of the salty floor of the pan and the intense orange of the dunes. This creates a particularly fascinating and surrealistic landscape, that appears in innumerable pictures and has been used as a setting for films and videos.
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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.
This first series I’ve titled Vistas and they represent a more traditional landscape style. I think they will give an idea of what White Sands is like. My subsequent series will be more interpretive.
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A lone backpacker trudges off into the dunes of White Sands National Monument. Unedited, straight off the camera.
The red sandstone cliffs take spectacular shapes: columns, swags, towers, corbels, funnels, sawteeth, sinkholes, potholes offer a constant vision of wonder to the eye. This is sedimentary rock, 99% quartz covered with a thin layer of iron oxide, and it is this latter which gives the stone its reddish colour.
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:::: Early Morning Reddish Sandstone !, Iles de la Madeleine, Québec, Canada. Copyright © 2010 Gaëtan Bourque. All rights reserved. Use without permission is illegal.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears
you out: It's the grain of sand in your
shoe.
Robert W. Service
August 17, 2016
Great Sand Dunes National Park; a natural wonder, tucked up against the base of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains in Colorado's San Luis Valley.
Near Alamosa, Colorado - USA
South-West Trip 2016 (Day 5)
August 13-27, 2016
Photo by brucetopher
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