Desert Galaxy

I took this picture a good few years back and I have always loved it.

My enthusiasm for it hasn't always been shared though. I sort of

imagine it to be like the spiral arms of a distant galaxy though it

is of course simply sand sculpted by wind. Light was essential in

revealing its quality and I am equally glad the shape is not

overpowered by a deep blue sky. Death Valley, USA. Hope you enjoy it.

Sometimes we love things for personal reasons, or based upon rememberances, any, & all are valid.

Your comment is most informative & helpful, although I did not read it until AFTER the image

caught my attention.

The light, color, softness of the sky, & composition are most subtle & sensual. There are songs upon the winds of the sand, & thank you for bringing me this one.

Perhaps from some primal place I share your enthusiasm.

I do not see the galaxy, there, but I do think you caputred in an excellent way the presence itself of the wind.

After all, wind is something which by its own nature cannot be shot, but you can only do some vague imaging of its effects... and you got many of them here: the overall existence of the dune is one, the ripples coming down from the right to the left is another, the way the sand edge, enhanced by a strip of light, curves upward also talks of wind and this is all topped off by what I seem to see as a puff of sand -light against black- airborne at the end of the curved ridge.