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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on April 29, 2024, 08:03:45 pm

Title: White Sands NP during a dust storm - 4 shots
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on April 29, 2024, 08:03:45 pm

The dust storm was particularly bad when we got there in the late afternoon. So bad that you could taste the dust in the air. I am still cleaning the muck out of my camera from this shoot and that was way back in October..

Luckily for us, the high winds blew themselves out by the following day.

Shot 1 shows what it was like when we arrived in the late afternoon.

Shot 2 is the sunset later on the same day, but shot through high wind and with lots and lots of dust in the air.

Shot 3 is the following morning. The wind had gone, but so had the clouds and any interest in the sky.

Shot 4 is an abstract of the patterns in the sand, before it all got covered in footprints again.

Just didn't give ourselves enough time in the park, to get anything more than these shots. So we might just have to go back one day ;D

Dave

Title: Re: White Sands NP during a dust storm - 4 shots
Post by: Mark Nadler on April 29, 2024, 09:55:12 pm

Nice.  I like all of them.

Mark

Title: Re: White Sands NP during a dust storm - 4 shots
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 30, 2024, 07:06:50 am

Love them all!

Title: Re: White Sands NP during a dust storm - 4 shots
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on May 01, 2024, 04:11:00 am

#3 is excellent. Worth all the earlier dust. (To me, anyway. But then, I wasn't there.)

Jeremy

Title: Re: White Sands NP during a dust storm - 4 shots
Post by: francois on May 01, 2024, 10:01:39 am

I love them all but #3 and #1 are my favorite shots.
Bravo.

Title: Re: White Sands NP during a dust storm - 4 shots
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on May 01, 2024, 02:26:28 pm

Thanks all  ;D

I prefer shot 2 myself. I like the romance of it, with the young couple of landscape photographers, walking together through the dust.

But then again, it's always difficult to evaluate your own work objectively, isn't it?

Glad you like them  ;)

Dave

Title: Re: White Sands NP during a dust storm - 4 shots
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on May 02, 2024, 07:18:27 am

#1 and #2 for me. The latter could be from Mars...

Title: Re: White Sands NP during a dust storm - 4 shots
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on May 20, 2024, 12:50:11 pm

Quote from: Paulo Bizarro on May 02, 2024, 07:18:27 am

#1 and #2 for me. The latter could be from Mars...

I agree Paulo, shot 2 does look like it could have been taken on Mars  ;D

Dave