Camel Train through the Sahara Desert

Wonderful composition, tonality, and vision. Great picture.

 

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Great shot. Maybe a bit of a cliche, but only so because it just works so well. That sky is something I live for as a photographer!

It's a great shot - thanks for sharing! Though, if I were you I'd remove those nasty letters at the bottom! With or without letters it's a great shot.

 

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Finally, an explanation behind the choice of the photo of the week. I am grateful enough for that, but recently the quality of the photos has improved too. Thank you.

Great shot, wonderful control on exposure..

This is a wonderful image. A good example of artistic composition , technical merit and a little bit of being in the right place at the right time.

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Great shot! Tonality and positioning are right on.

The beauty of this photo hinges on the lower clouds and the U formation. The sand dunes and the camel train are underexposed and seem to be awefully neglected. IMHO, the balance in this photo has been robbed by a neglected upper 1/4th section and lower 1/4th section.

 

Nevertheless, its a nice photograph and has a mood to it.

I like the rich sepia tone which complements the desert scene well. Well composed althought I would crop the top 1/4 of the shot. Well done.

I like the shot, and it is a nice travel photo. Thus the aesthetics rating. However when I saw it I immediately thought "Lawrence of Arabia" and David Lean. Not that this is bad (au contraie), but maybe a different way to portray the vastness of the desert would make it a better pic.

great shot .... cloud formations over caravan really set the mood .... could also crop the image horizontally across the pix at about the middle, creating a slim-jim, but i like the relatively small proportion of the image devoted to the caravan.

A very nice picture. I did not think U shaped clouds, but crescent shaped, which then led me to think that Hallmark could market this as a Ramadan card and open up a whole new market in the Middle East!

No comment...it's beautiful!

Great effort

I am a learner of photoghraphy. Your photo is a chapter to me. Congratulations

The clouds are terrific and the caravan well placed but why knock out the colors of the sky? It would be interesting to compare the dramatics of the untinted scene with the Sepia toned scene perhaps that would amplify why the photographer chose the filter.

Why not just enjoy the beauty the photographer shared with us, rather than second-guess his artistic vision? I'm sure Dan had valid reasons for using a sepia filter. Check out Dan's other photos here and on his web site. This photograph is not a fluke.

Superb. I'd love to see an original print...

Dan, I enjoyed my week of Photo.net "fame" in last week's POW. I'm glad that the standards are as high with this week's choice of your wonderful image. Your images show not only superb photographic skill but also an understanding of the subjects and how best to visually present them. If the visitors to your extensive website galleries take anything away with them, it should be that the world is an incredible, stunning place that should be seen up close and not just viewed in various media. Fortunately for us, your beautiful images make us want to discover it all for ourselves. David Julian

(www.davidjulian.com)

Nice. Really nice!

Its a well deserved POTW selection. And FINALLY, the rationale behind the selection appears! Thanks team photo.net.

It looks like two photos to me. One of the unusual sky formation, and one of the backlit camel train. For my taste, I'd crop out the upper half of the sky and create a panaroma of just the fluffy clouds and camel train.

I would have framed it a little tighter but it's a beautiful photograph

This might be a personal bias, but I really like the open frame including all the clouds. The clouds, like the camel train, are in motion: Slow and steady, the cloud moisture flattens out in the classic anvil shape. (This is some textbook meterology stuff happenin' here!) But that movement makes a nice metaphore for the timeless plodding of the camel train, all part of a never ending cycle.

 

I'm interested in why the photo was choosen, and the feature here of inclusion of that by the PhotoNet elves may be an important part of our learning experience. HOWEVER, sometimes I like just "showin' up cold" and viewing something on its own merits, without any bias. Sometimes that's how I invite people to view my own photos - very little setup, except a title so they can find it. I usually include detail if someone wants to hunt for it, because sometimes that's something I look for myself later.