So far the images I have shared from Imperial Sand Dunes in California have been wildly disparate. On one hand I had the untouched sand dunes sculpted by the wind. On the other the raging dune buggies, ATVs and motorcycles. I decided to make an attempt at combining the two concepts and I got a chance at sunset one evening when the "duners" were just coming home. … [Read more...] about Sunset at Imperial Sand Dunes
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Action Shots at Imperial Sand Dunes
Before I visited Imperial Sand Dunes in California I always thought of dunes as being peaceful places where only the footprints of the people before you can be seen. That was the case on one side of the dunes where I made the images you can see here and here. But on the other side of the dunes it was a different story. I guess my notions of dunes being peaceful was due to … [Read more...] about Action Shots at Imperial Sand Dunes
Imperial Sand Dunes in Black and White
At Imperial Sand Dunes in California, I was photographing at the point in the day when the last light is gone but the beautiful twilight colours have not yet arrived. A few minutes after I made the second image in yesterday's post, I took a few steps to the left so that the peaks of the two dunes crossed and created a different composition. I really liked this … [Read more...] about Imperial Sand Dunes in Black and White
Five Things I Learned by Photographing in the Afternoon
When I am photographing I usually go out in the afternoon to do some scouting in preparation for the evening twilight shoots that I love. It's when the last light is on the tips of the mountains and the sky begins to turn pale pink that I am in my zone. I have written before about how most of the time my last shot is my best shot. But sometimes that isn't the … [Read more...] about Five Things I Learned by Photographing in the Afternoon