Photography Collection of Hot Desert Landscapes Beautifully composed
Arizona’s Lower Antelope Canyon, on the Navajo Indian Reservation, is an incredible place. It begins as a crack in the middle of a dry riverbed, just barely large enough to squeeze through, and then it quickly drops deep underground. The canyon, literally an underground labyrinth, was carved by subterranean water flowing through miles of sandstone.
In some areas of the caverns, crevasses and tunnels, although far below ground level, sand from the desert floor spills down. Like a waterfall, the sand flows over the edges of the canyon walls, pulled by gravity, to the ground deep below the desert’s surface, creating many unforgettable scenes such as this one.
Photography By :Â Stephen Oachs
Amazing sand dunes in the Sahara desert.
Photography By :Â Ivan Å losar
A distant sandstorm behind an enormous dunefield is highlighted by the sun breaking through the squall. A lone sagebrush catches the show from the cracked desert at my feet. Obviously some artistic liberties were taken in post-processing but this is a single exposure.
Photography By :Â Marc Adamus
I recently had the great opportunity to travel to the United Arab Emirates to collaborate on some projects with locally renowed photographer Abdullaziz Bin Ali. We lead a workshop locally in Dubai but also journeyed into one of the most starkly beautiful, uninhabited places in the world, called the Empty Quarter which borders Oman, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
The image you see here was one I took during our field session during the group workshop, on a very windy day! Luckily, the locals were much less objectionable to the blowing sand conditions than the local photographers out here in Oregon would have been!
Photography By :Â Marc Adamus
As a wildlife photographer we only have very limited influence on our subjects and the circumstances, and for me that is what makes it so addictive – you never know what you’re going to get, and you keep wanting to go back for more and better.
For most of the subjects that I shoot, I have the perfect image already inside my head, I just have to try to get it on camera. Knowing your subject and being at the right spot at the right time is part of the work, but unfortunately with wildlife you also have to be incredibly lucky.
And lucky I was when I was flying in a microlight over the giant red sand dunes of Sossusvlei during the Namibia Untamed tour. We were heading back to the lodge when I suddenly saw this small herd of oryx running right in front of us on a giant sand dune. I always have two bodies with a 24-70 and 70-200 when I’m in a microlight, because you simply cannot change lenses in an open airplane. I quickly grabbed the D3 with the 70-200 and shot a short burst before we had passed them. It was over in seconds. When I looked at the images back in our camp, I couldn’t believe my eyes – the near perfect choreography. I could have never previsualized an image like this, simply because it would seem absurd to think it would be possible.
©2010 Marsel van Oosten, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
Photography By :Â Marsel van Oosten
Once upon time at Mesquite Flat Dunes. Death Valley
Photography By :Â Gleb Tarro
Photography By :Â Dariusz Klimczak
Photography By :Â Hunter Luisi
Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. Also written DeadVlei or Dead Vlei, its name means “dead marsh”.
Deadvlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, the highest reaching 300-400 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area.
The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. The remaining skeletons of the trees, which are believed to be about 900 years old, are now black because the intense sun has scorched them. Though not petrified, the wood does not decompose because it is so dry.
I took this shot on this year’s Namibia workshop. Climate change is happening all over the world, even here. This should be one of the driest places on the planet, but this year there has been a record-breaking amount of rain in Namibia and the water from the flooding rivers got all the way up to here. On the other side of the dunes there was even a small lake – very unusual. What you see here is very dense fog creeping over the dunes, about to fill the valley.
©2011 Marsel van Oosten, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
Photography By :Â Marsel van Oosten
Music inspiration Dead can dance
Photography By :Â Tomasz Zaczeniuk
Photography By :Â Faisal Aljuhani
Cholla cactus illuminated by a spectacular desert sunrise in Joshua Tree National Park. Cholla cactus do amazing things when the light hits them, so much so that I came back to the Joshua Tree Cactus Garden three sunrises in a row. But they are also a risky subject. Also called the jumping cactus, the slightest touch allows them to hook into you with such tenacity it seems like they must have jumped on you. I got one stuck in my leg and found you can’t pull them out with your hands. Seasoned Desert Rat, Larry Carpenter, came to the rescue with a comb which he slotted behind the spiny ball and pried it out of my flesh.
Anyway, this sunrise was one of those special outdoor experiences that makes all your nerve endings buzz. I’m grateful to have had the chance to experience it and record it.
Photography By :Â Sean Bagshaw
Morning rises in Erg Chebbi – Morocco
Photography By :Â Nicolas Paquet
The waves of the Sahara
Photography By :Â Thierry Hennet
Maghrib, or evening prayer of a desert bedouin
Photography By :Â Beno Saradzic
Yazd ,Iran
Photography By :Â Mohammadreza Tavajjoh
A local of Mt. Bromo, rides towards the volcano on his way to work. A lot of local people work in the tourism industry, guiding groups up to the summit of the volcano usually on horse-back.
Photography By :Â Ewan Tupper
Night photography
Photography By :Â Martin Zalba
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