The Atacama Desert, highest, driest, all kinds of extremes.
Salt, sand and sky...
1/ 400s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-10 / 6 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:16 14:34:41
That's some of the salt, here's some sand...
1/ 250s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-6 / 6 || 70mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:16 14:32:36
Sometimes things just line up...
1/ 200s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-2 / 6 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:16 12:12:04
Then there's the Salar de Atacama, a huge salt deposit that resulted from deglaciation some 12,000 years ago...
1/ 640s, at f/14 || E.Comp:-6 / 6 || 24mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:17 14:31:33
Another angle...
1/ 60s, at f/22 || E.Comp:0 || 70mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:17 15:13:26
Did I mention Volcanoes?
1/ 500s, at f/14 || E.Comp:-2 / 6 || 220mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:17 11:29:33
And at about 14,000 feet, a lake...
1/ 1600s, at f/14 || E.Comp:-10 / 6 || 24mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:17 12:01:56
The clarity at that altitude is breathtaking.
Further down the mountains, a hill and some clouds juxtapose...
1/ 400s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-10 / 6 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:20 09:44:26
Wild beasts too...
1/ 400s, at f/14 || E.Comp:-2 / 6 || 400mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:17 11:28:43
Thanks for looking!
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