The Coming Sands by Marc Adamus

The Coming Sands by Marc Adamus

Please view on black. Or my website. Thanks to climate change, desertification and dunes have been happening at an increasing rate across much of the Great Basin and California the last two decades. These are ‘new’ sand dunes, and this is just the start of the show. Good for photographers, bad for….well, anything else currently living here. This place, which you have almost certainly not seen photographed, contains a forest of literally thousands of Joshua Trees spread out over many square miles which are being consumed by highly rippled sand dunes, some now even 50 or 100ft high. I have spent many miles on foot exploring the possibilities here, and yes, you also can take the journey here with me on any of my new Southwest trips… as long as you are sworn to secrecy, haha 😉 It is actually only about 1 hour from the nearest road…. In this simple sunset image with classic foreground lines the biggest challenge was flaring and dynamic range. I used multiple exposures to accomplish this and some complex blending around the sun area. Otherwise this is pretty much what it looked like, the composition anyway. Thanks for any comments.

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