The Waves

THE WAVES (Black and white version): Choose your favorite!

On a family camping trip, I took a break in the evening to explore

the tallest dune (490 ft). I took a diversion as the sun seemed to

reach the horizon earlier than I thought. This place lies in the

valley and sun sets early here. On the way I watched beetles

crawling on the sand, rabbits playing in the bushes, met birds

returning to their nests. I also observed and carefully avoided the

countless tracks of beetles, coyotes, and rabbits and possibly

snakes too. I came to the base of his smaller dune, where I was

welcomed by this sea of sand. I was the only surfer there on these

waves, along with a couple of bushes like the one I captured here.

I used the 16-35 mm lens on 20D. Tripod as low as possible. Used

polarizer, which is very tricky because of the angle of the Sun's

rays, however necessary to remove some hazy reflections. If you have

a camera that offers the full view with lenses like 5D, you could

also use the 15 mm lens to get the beautiful symmetry of the round

shape of the dunes as well as the artistic distortion you can obtain

with the fisheye.

Just excellent ! Bravo