Deadvlei
You awake before dawn, quickly dress, and go to the lodge dining room for a quick cup of coffee. Aided by the light of your flashlight, you climb into the safari vehicle. For over an hour, you drive through the dark. What passes for a road is two tracks in the dirt and rocks. When the vehicle finally stops, you climb out as the dark night morphs into a thick pre-dawn gray. Grabbing your camera gear, you begin the trek across the sand, pans, and small dunes. You climb through a pass between two high dunes and there before you lies a vast pan dotted with dead camel thorn trees still standing after hundreds of years. You have arrived at Deadvlei, one of the unique sites on earth. Walking down onto the pan, you look for that special spot to view the rising sun as it appears above one of the highest dunes on the planet. Still shrouded in pre-dawn gray, you find your spot and set up your tripod and camera. Now you wait and watch the moving shadows in the changing light. It is a magical and mystical place. Your patience is rewarded with beautiful sunrise photographs. This is one of the reasons you made the trip to Namibia. It will be etched in your memory forever. This amazing morning will only be eclipsed by your helicopter flight over the dunes this afternoon. Africa calls!
Thank you, Wayne, for taking me back to this magical place and time. There is a special quality about the early morning light in Deadvlei as the sun slips over the horizon and begins to illuminate the pristine, unmarked dunes. Every moment of the new day brings amazing photographic opportunities as the bright sunlight brings the orange sand to life and the centuries-old trees cast their long dark shadows across the milky-white hard pan of the ancient lake bottom. Namibia is a treasure, and I’m so glad to have been able to share it with you on two occasions. Your photographs are wonderful and are a vivid testimony of your skill as a photographer, artist and storyteller. Let’s go back!
Namibia is amazing and sharing it with you was a wonderful experience. You’ve helped make me a better photographer.
Thanks, Joe
All the Best,
Wayne
Incredible pictures! JSindorf ask me to see 😉 You are great photographer!
Thank You, Irina
All the Best
Wayne