Light And Form, White Sands National Park, Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA
I watched the light move across the dunes at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, carving out shadows and lifting the highlights as the wind reshaped everything in real time. It felt vast and minimal all at once. There was just sand, a hint of green, and a soft blue sky. These dunes set […]
Picture Rocks National Park, Arizona, USA
Picture Rocks National Park — PIcture Rocks, Arizona, USA
Desert Scene, Judean Desert, Israel
The story behind this shot is very simple. It was the result of taking my camera into the Judean Desert in search of beautiful pictures. The striated rock formation, with the desert situated above it, seemed to fit the bill very well. The picture is presented in monochrome.
The Colors Of Sand, Death Valley National Park, California, USA
A beautiful side shot of the desert area called Artist Palette. I loved the contrast of the typical yellow sand against the colourful, sherbet-looking hillside.
Damaraland, Namibia
This image was taken in Damaraland, which we visited with the express wish to see the desert-adapted elephants. Normally, these would be found around 1 hour or so from our base. On this occasion, they were much further afield, and so we had a long desert trek to locate them in a dried-up riverbed. The […]
High Noon, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco
This was taken while on a tour of Morocco. We had left the Sahara Desert earlier in the day, and we were now heading to our next stop, a kasbah in the High Atlas. About three weeks prior, a massive earthquake had hit Morocco, with the epicentre in the High Atlas. After much fact-gathering, we […]
Valley Of Fire State Park, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
On another snowbird trip to Arizona and Nevada from my hometown of Courtenay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, we stopped to check the campground in this wonderful place. The many red sandstone formations are unbelievable. They are everywhere and all different in size and shape. The desert floor between these formations is covered with assorted […]
Sunset Over Monument Valley, Navajo Nation, Arizona, USA
After a harrowing drive in incredibly performing, modified GM Yukons up the side of the mesa, we were rewarded with the most stunning sunset I have ever experienced. The red rock simply glows, as if lit from within—magnificent embers in the dying light. I used a long lens to compress the image and to bring […]
Star Trail Over Jebel Shams, Wadi Sahtan, Oman
I am part of a local astronomy group that regularly goes on weekend trips to dark sites, normally around the new moon period. Here in Oman, there are still a few locations that are remote enough to allow good observation, where light pollution is lower than usual. Other participants have much more complex equipment than […]
Mountain Desert, Chivay, Peru
In August 2018, we traveled to Peru and Bolivia as members of an organized trip. Peru features a 1,555-mile (2,500 km) long, narrow desert strip along its Pacific coast, making up about 10% of the country and acting as one of the driest places on Earth. For that trip, I carried two identical Olympus cameras, […]