This month’s photo comes from Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, in southwestern Utah. We visited the dunes in January; unlike other dunes I’ve visited, the sand here is full of iron oxides, giving it a brilliant red-pink color. At sunset, the color gets even more brilliant. The state park is an excellent place for camping and recreation, but the beauty of visiting in January is that you have the place to yourself. Despite the brilliance of the entire dunes, I created this intimate landscape as the sun was going down, and its been one of my favorite photos of 2010 so far.
Coral Pink Sand Dunes, January 2010
Hope you enjoy the photo! To see all my shots from Coral Pink Sand Dunes, click here.
That is a fantastic photograph Greg. The abstract pattern with a small slash of contrast — simplicity at it’s finest. This one really grabs me.
My father, Philip Hyde has a well-known image of sand patterns that are quite different from those in this image. We were considering cropping the photograph down to an up-close abstract like this, as it had appeared in one publication. Interesting that you made a similar choice on how much of the pattern to include and made it a closer image. This photograph will probably be well-liked.