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title: "Dune Light"
description: "Dune ridges, ripples, and long shadows in the Sharqiya Sands, photographed in the first and last hours of light."
url: "https://margo-astro.pages.dev/projects/dune-light/"
year: "2025"
categories: "Photography"
---

# Dune Light

> Dune ridges, ripples, and long shadows in the Sharqiya Sands, photographed in the first and last hours of light.

- **Year**: 2025
- **Location**: Sharqiya Sands, Oman

Sand, shadow, and the hour in between.

## Project images

- Ridges at first light.
- A balloon's shadow, there for a minute.
- Ripples after the night wind.
- Grass holding the slope.
- A bowl of shadow, late afternoon.
- Ripples leading to the high dune.
- The high dune before sunset.
- Last light on the flat.

In the Sharqiya Sands the dunes change shape overnight, and the light changes them again by the hour. I worked only in the first and last two hours of the day, when the sun is low enough to draw every ripple and the shadows run long and blue-black. In between, the desert goes flat and white, and I slept.

The series moves from wide ridges to close textures. One morning a hot-air balloon drifted over the camp, and its shadow crossed the dunes for a minute before the wind took it away.