Visual Serendipity — Middle Eastern Desert.

 
One of my unful­filled travel dreams is (still) to visit an Oasis. While I did not get to see one, I did visit the desert right at the bor­der between the United Arab Emi­rates and Oman, to wit­ness a mag­nif­i­cent sunset.

To make the expe­ri­ence even bet­ter, I had the priv­i­lege to go on this expe­di­tion with David Bur­nett, a pho­tog­ra­pher I have deeply respected and admired for over 20 years. I was hap­pily sur­prised to see him shoot­ing with a Holga, a Ricoh GXR, a Leica M9, a Mamiya C330, a Mamiya 6x6, and even a Pana­sonic LX7 dur­ing the few days we spent together.

I like this pic­ture, but it doesn’t really cap­ture what I felt; the vast space of noth­ing­ness, the excit­ing iso­la­tion from “civ­i­liza­tion,” the sun­light dis­ap­pear­ing rapidly, and the warm breeze dras­ti­cally chang­ing its tem­per­a­ture within minutes…

Luck­ily, I did shoot sev­eral video clips that after­noon and plan to do some­thing with them soon. Stay tuned.

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