Ballad of Gales by Alex Noriega

Ballad of Gales by Alex Noriega

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Online Processing Instruction Golden evening light and wind on the dunes of Death Valley, California. No orton here, that’s just the glow of blowing back/side-lit sand. I know, “another” dune shot. But these are the conditions I had always hoped for, and never gotten, at the dunes. Wind was forecast for this particular evening, so I made sure to be there. The way blowing sand glows and catches light is pretty amazing, and I was fortunate enough to find this dynamic composition before the light was gone, along with the wind. The wind certainly could have been better, so I won’t call it quits on shooting dunes just yet – but it did enough for this image to make it stand out among my own dune shots, at least. This is one of my two favorite dune images, the other being the quieter “Nocturne of Shadow” from last year.

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