White Sands New Mexico

Aaron Bernard

I went to the White Sands national monument on a road trip around the south west. This was my first time shooting in the dunes and I was hoping to get a classic dune shot. As road trips go I was not running on a tight time schedule and got to the dunes about 45 minutes before sunset. This left me scrambling about looking for a dune the right shape and angle to the sun that also had not been walked on yet! I didnt have enough time to find what I wanted and it turns out about 15 minutes before the sun went down a huge cloud bank came in and took all the contrasting shadows out of the dunes. O well!

I did capture a few of the plants that were leaving nice tracks in the sand from the wind.

So tip of the day: Unless your in really good shape and can run across sand quickly, get to the dunes early!

David_S85

Love it!

Highlander

Lovely patterns and colour. Well done. :

USAIR

Yep me too great shot

Thanks
Fred

ultravox

FastScan, that is a poster... not a photo

vermenton

ultravox wrote:

FastScan, that is a poster... not a photo

very nice, like it

thdizzy

FastScan wrote:

This was my first time shooting in the dunes and I was hoping to get a classic dune shot.

I must say that I'd trade this shot for the 'seen it a 100 times' classic dune shot any day...Very well done!

TristanP

Sweet - nicely captured.

saurora

I love this shot! It is a very pleasing composition to my eye...the division of the sand and the sky is very nice. It is different to see some clouds as opposed to a blank blue canvas. Makes for an entirely unique dunes shot, I think. A real keeper!!!

kdog

Lovely shot!

Did you use a circular polarizer on this one?

Aaron Bernard

Thanks for all the nice comments! :

Yes, I was using a circular polarizer while shooting there.
This was shot at 1/160, f7.1, 17mm

One thing I learned while here was to overexpose by one or two stops. The meter was being fooled by the bright white sand so following the meter was leading to underexposed images.

Fred W

Great picture. I love the blue-white color contrast and the converging lines.

maegandougherty

I really like this one too. Great colors, and it's interesting. I love the tracks from the plant!

Angelo

very nice indeed

Shima

Awesome shot. My dad went there to visit family some many years ago and I saw a rather bad quality shot of it, this really does it justice... I'd love to go there sometime.