Dune Light
- Location
- Sharqiya Sands, Oman
- Year
- 2025
- Images
- 8
Dune ridges, ripples, and long shadows in the Sharqiya Sands, photographed in the first and last hours of light.
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.
