Rhub Al Khali Desert, Oman
I spent wonderful days in the Rub’ al Khali desert in Oman. This desert exceeded all my expectations. I had never seen such beautiful dunes in any other desert before. After spending a few days taking wide-angle shots and panoramas, I wanted to focus on more detail. Using a short telephoto lens, I tried to […]
White Sand Desert, Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India
Nubra Valley is situated in a remote northeastern corner of Ladakh. Being a high-altitude desert, its stunning white sand stretches are a popular tourist attraction. The stark white desert, contrasting with the harsh, arid mountains, is absolutely stunning.
Penguin Rock And Juniper Tree, Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA
Tucked away in the vast Mojave Desert, Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California is a landscape unlike any other. I had scouted this location a few times before capturing this image, waiting until the conditions were right — arriving a few hours before sunset to give myself time to work the scene as the […]
Desert Hills, Lake Lagunillas, Antuyo, Peru
In August 2018, we travelled to Peru and Bolivia as members of an organised 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, […]
Cold Desert, Ladakh, India
Often called “The Land of High Passes,” Ladakh is India’s most famous cold desert and is known for its barren mountains and crystal-clear lakes, like Pangong Tso, seen in this image. Due to the extremely high altitude, the climate in Ladakh is very dry and cold. There is very little rainfall here, as it lies […]
Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, USA
Hiking with my family at Great Sand Dunes National Park as a storm gathered dramatically over the mountains in the distance.
Lone Monument, Monument Valley, Arizona, USA
On my way home from a cross-country RV trip, I took a day to go through Monument Valley in the Navajo Nation, in Utah and Arizona. It was a dark and drizzly day, unusual in the desert but making for dramatic photos. I was stopping every chance I could to see what I could from […]
Dawn At Jebel Shams, Oman
This photo was taken during a recent astronomy club camping trip to a dark sky area located near the northern face of Jebel Shams, the highest mountain in Oman. The previous night, our group observed several planets and other celestial objects. I had left my camera shooting a few hundred images (to assemble later as […]
Ethereal Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA
My first visit to Death Valley was on a workshop, and we ran into a mild sandstorm, which made it inadvisable to wander among the dunes as I usually do. So I looked for compositions from the road and parking area. I got two great shots that day, but this is one of my all-time […]
Dawn On The Racetrack, Death Valley National Park, California, USA
In the few minutes before sunrise, the air was still, the temperature cool, and the rocks were motionless. I had spent the night near the Racetrack Playa of Death Valley to collect star photos. It was late March and, under clear skies at 3700 ft elevation (1126 m), the nights get cold. On this morning, […]