desert camel 砂漠のラクダ (UAE)

Posted by timothy sullivan (Tokyo, Japan) on 11 May 2009 in Landscape & Rural.

We sped out into the gorgeous Arabian desert, and somewhere around an hour's worth of rushing past sand I turned to my friend with a childlike smile and said, "Hey--Is it cool if I get out and take a stroll for a bit? Just for like 30 minutes or something." Hiromi chuckled and said she was waiting for me to ask that very question.

And so out the door I hopped, onto the pillows of sand, savoring that searing desert heat which enveloped my body. I walked and walked, catching millisecond-long glimpses of surprised drivers as they zipped past, and eventually happened upon a camel rancher's range--something small and lovely, and a secret I am certain that all of those drivers and other tourists had missed.

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Comments (6)

Hoshisato from Ealing, United Kingdom

Love the composition of this photo; the Aminus3 thumbnail was completely empty which was very curious.
BTE, there seems to be some dust particles on your sensor on the top of the image, not unsurprising given the area you visited :-)

11 May 2009 11:28am

@Hoshisato: Hey Hoshi! Yeah--I realized that the thumbnail was pretty blah as well, and had considered cropping the photo a bit...until I said, oi! No! Let it be grey--the photo looks fine the way it appears. And I like that big sky. ;-)
Thanks for pointing out the dust particles! I'm thinking they're on my filter, as they were in a few of my other shots; I ended up bathing it in one of the sonic eyeglass cleaners they have here in Japan; gotta love that perk! (Great for cleaning the occasional filter--I find they get that grime and dust off far better than lens cleaner!)