Red Dunes at Sossusvlei
Sossusvlei, Namibia, September 2000
Shaped by the wind over
thousands of years, the red dunes at Sossusvlei are reputed to be the
highest sand dunes in the world (the ones in this photo are almost 1,000
feet high). With the sun arcing down toward the horizon, I began the
exhausting climb to the top of one of the dunes, only to realize that
its true summit lay far beyond in the distance. A driving cloud of fine
sand permeated every crevice of my camera as I photographed the
dreamlike landscape. When the sun set, I packed away my camera and
tumbled down the soft, steep side of the dune to rejoin some friends
patiently waiting at the bottom.
Copyright 200
0 Martin Wierzbicki