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Eyeconic
April 09, 2016
This has just made my all times favourites list. An incredible image. Well oone
rafaelborges
July 05, 2016
Absolutely amazing.. I love the forms and the grafikal effect. There is a guitar kind of shape that spices this image even more
KarlduPreez
July 24, 2016
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michaelakrempelhoward
October 30, 2016
WOW - what an awesome capture. It doesn't get better. Thank you for sharing.
rachaellivingstone
October 30, 2016
call me crazy but I see an elephant nose...pretty sure its one of those once you see it you cant unsee it...someone please explain
MarshallChris
October 31, 2016
wow, so cool the dune in the back ground looks like a tornado. Epic!!!!!
andrewlpaul
January 03, 2017
It legit took me a sec to realize this is just one giant sand dune. So cool! Good job!
Dr-Photography
March 02, 2017
Wow! just wow I haven't been this shocked I guess is the word, at a picture. amazing I'm still trying to understand how this was taken. it has to be a composition. But anyway this is brilliant.
silvanomartincigh
March 02, 2017
Not a composition at all, just the two sides of a renowned Namib desert's dune with a tree in the front. Thank you
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Location
I took this picture in the Namib desert, not far from SossusvleiTime
It was late afternoon. I was driving back to my campsite, you have to leave this area of the Namib-Naukluft National park before sunset, when i noticed this solitary tree in front of the luminous side of a big dune.Lighting
The light's direction is everything in a picture like this one, at noon both sides of the dunes look equal, without this beautiful contrast.Equipment
I used my preferred kind of lens, a long telephoto lens, which is why the perspective looks compressedInspiration
i love minimal and graphical pictures so i thought to isolate the tree against the big s made by the duneEditing
I did my usual post-processing, general correction of contrast, luminosity and saturation, with a bit of cropping to eliminate a very little triangle of sky i couldn't eliminate at the shooting momentIn my camera bag
In countries like Namibia, with a so abundant fauna, i always travel with two camera bodies, two telephoto lenses, one wide angle, one macro lens and some photographic accessoriesFeedback
Actually i don't take this kind of picture so often but in places like Sossusvlei, where you can find some of the most photographed places of the world, is not so hard to find beautiful corners of nature, the hardest part is probably to create something with at least a bit of originality.