“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.” (Jean Baudrillard)
Inner Silence
Dunes
White Sands (Afternoon)
Impressions from a visit to White Sands, New Mexico on a hazy day, with blowing dust and clouds in the sky.
White Sands (Morning)
Photos from a morning stroll through the otherworldly gypsum crystal dunes at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, USA.
White Sands (Evening)
Five photos and story from a first stop at White Sands National Monument, the largest gypsum dune field on Earth, during our March 2019 road trip.
New Dunes
I’ve finally gotten around to reviewing the photos from my September 2015 visit to Algodones Dunes – this was long, long overdue of course. I had cherry-picked a photo of the month and some other images for previous blog posts (Life in the Dunes, Crème, Vertical Dunes) from that day, but shame on me, I never applying my own system that I teach in my Lightroom workshop – making easy, definite decisions of picking and rating images, to stay on top of the processing backlog. That’s done now, and in the process I removed over 60 images, freeing up some 2.5GB of disk space too.
Desert Night at Algodones Dunes
After I made my photo of the month for August at Pinyon Point in the Laguna Mountains, Tracy and I continued into the desert. It was a bit silly since we knew the moon would rise early and limit the possibility to photograph the night sky severely, but when two guys who are nuts about photography are together and share one car, there’s no stopping – and so we drove out all the way to Algodones Dunes.