Sands of the Wilderness

[abraxas]

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[Josh66]

Very nice!

Love the first one.

 

[JohnMF]

i especially like the last one

 

[Chris of Arabia]

It would be nice if I could ever get shots like this out here, but the sky seems determined to remain resolutely sand coloured - makes for a rather dull image to be honest.

 

[abraxas]

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[NJMAN]

Excellent dune photos man! That's one big sandbox.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

That's sounds strange- is it because of all the sand's reflection in the sky?

No it's because the stuff is permanently suspended in the atmosphere. I thin it's mainly down to the stuff the sand is made up of. Don't know much about the geology of the place, but oolitic limestone seems to ring a bell from somewhere. Whatever it is, it is remarkably fine at times, some of it being almost like talcum power. Once the wind gets up, it takes a long time to come back down again and so far this year the wind has been on Viagra by the truckload.

 

[Honu]

#1 is my favorite, great colors.

 

[ValDR]

Simple desert compositions which would have been very interesting if they were not so flat: I see no shadows, no contrasts, no saturation ... nothing to make them impressive. Well ... first and third are well composed

 

[abraxas]

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[NJMAN]

Thanks. Heheh, yep. The coolest thing (is not the weather out there), is that these dunes are very remote and just about virgin sand.
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I would give my left...uh...arm to be able to shoot virgin sand like this some day! Even if I dont get to shoot dunes, I would like to get out to the Nevada desert...maybe on my next visit to Vegas. Would you be willing to hook up and go out shooting if I looked you up? Or are you in CA?

 

[abraxas]

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[abraxas]

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