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OT: Other great sand dunes

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Posted by Jeff Sirota on April 17, 2009 at 10:22 AM
I just returned from a ten day trip to Morocco. It is a beautiful country with some amazing natural scenery and some incredible ancient cities. I'm working on processing my photos now but just wanted to post one from a camel excursion into the Sahara.

Here are just a few more.

Thanks for looking. More to come...

-Jeff
Posted by Chad Dees on April 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Hi jeff the image is not showing all it shows is an X.
Posted by Rod Chandler on April 17, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Jeff, Nice work! Kinda makes our Great Sand Dunes National Park look puny. I like the idea for the shadows in your last photo. Did you notice the ear of the camel protruding into the lower right hand corner of the image. You might want to crop or clone that out. Good work and thanks.
Posted by James H Egbert on April 17, 2009 at 11:09 AM
I ran into these guy at the 7-Eleven in Alamosa last time I was at the Dunes. Man they like their Coffee Strong! I didn't try the tea.

Awesome photograph, this is exactly what Nat Geo is all about.
Posted by James H Egbert on April 17, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Oh I like the one of the riders going away from you in its compositional layout, but because the riders are tourists, I think it looses the punch it could have had. So my Favorite shot is the main you posted here. I love the Long Diagonal Line the Camels make through the scene.

Posted by Grant Collier on April 17, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Some nice shots! There's a chance I'll be in Morocco in two years, so it's nice to see a preview. Some of the shots seem a bit flat, like you're not filling up the entire histogram. That can easily be fixed with a Levels adjustment in Photoshop.
Posted by Aleksandra Miesak on April 17, 2009 at 12:15 PM
These are great! I'd love to see more. The one up here in the thread didn't show up for me either :confused:
Posted by Dave Showalter` on April 17, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Man, those are incredible. I love the blue guy leading the camels!
Posted by Joshua Hardin on April 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Those are quite the sand dunes. The shot you posted here is my fav, but I also really like the one of the shadows.
Posted by Jeff Sirota on April 18, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Thanks for the comments. I will have to clone that camel out of the one shot. Believe me, I also wish the camel riders weren't tourists, but that's who rides them in this part of Morocco...