I’ve been processing some of the pictures from our recent road trip to New Mexico so I’ll be running a series of White Sands Textures this week. These were all taken on July 9th at White Sands National Monument near Alamogordo. We got into the park at about 7:30am when the sun was still low enough in the sky to create some great side lighting. I found the contrast between the small scale, sharp, high frequency ripples in the sand and the large scale, smooth, curved dune faces fascinating.
For the technically inclined...
[…] taken with a super-wide lens which accentuates the perspective and makes the place feel enormous. The first shot in the series was taken with a telephoto to compress the dunes together and highlight the landscape’s […]