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This is my final dunes series from my trip to White Sands National Park. While editing a photo for a high key look, I pushed a slider further than necessary and discovered by accident a look that I liked––– minimalist, abstract, interpretive … not the look I was seeking and certainly different from all the photos I had created so far. The technique only worked on certain scenes, contrasty and with interesting shadow areas. I numbered them as I went along but am posting in a different order, so the number sequencing is not progressive. Here are my final six images from White Sands.

In late October, I made a trip to New Mexico to shoot the dunes at White Sands National Park. I hooked up with my close friend and photographer, Sandra Herber. www.flickr.com/photos/sandraherber/ We were at White Sands four days, made eight excursions into the dunes, hiked over 20 miles and shot close to 2,000 photos between us.

We are posting our images at the same time and it will be interesting to see how we handled being in the same locations together. For safety reasons and for the fun of it, we hiked the dunes together, sometimes pointing our lenses in the same direction, other times wandering apart. I am sure we got some similar shots, but it will be interesting to see those that are different as we each have our own way of looking at things, as well as having different focal length coverage. Then there is the processing aspect.

To say White Sands is magical is an understatement. As photographers, we talk about the light, emphasize the light, are critical about the light. The dunes at White Sands react in amazing ways to the change in light, offering different looks, revealing various personalities. It is this diversity of the dunes that I wanted to capture then, and present here now.

Tags: sand dunes dunes White Sands National Park New Mexico Black and White B/W abstract Minimalism Frank Loose