21 August 2011

Falling Skies


Namibia is like our second home - we've been there countless times and simply love the country. When we went there for the first time, hardly anyone had ever heard of it, let alone seen photographs of the surreal scenery. Now, many years later, it is one of the most popular landscape photography destinations in Africa, there are Namibia pictures all over the internet, and for a large part we have ourselves to blame for it, bringing groups there every year. As a result, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to create something original at this incredible place.

This year I got very lucky when the heavens decided to bring me something entirely different from the blue skies that I've become so used to. What you see here is very dense fog creeping over the dunes, about to fill the valley. The fog lasted for over an hour even after sunrise, and it was the most magical hour I have ever spent there.

D3s, AF-S 14-24/2.8, 1/13 @ f/8, ISO 200, focus blend

4 comments:

PRAKASH SUBBANNA said...

Super use of the conditions. Nice image.

Bruno Ázera said...

Awesome work!
How many images did you use for "focus blend"?

Marsel said...

Thanks!

Bruno - I used four images for the focus blend.

Robert Wagter said...

Very very nice. Breaking the 1/3 rule is definitely the right choice here.

Robert

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