The Ascension of Dumont Dune

I felt a calling to travel a thousand miles from the rainforest to the desert, where I spent three days watching the shifting sands and their shadows move across the landscape. There was no one but me, the wind, the sand, the Sun, and the Moon. On the final day, I found the perfect vantage point and positioned my camera. I captured the icy clouds and glistening sand. Several hours after sunset, a rare meteorological phenomenon occurred called Lunar Corona. The light reflecting off the moon’s surface was refracted in millions of hexagonal ice particles suspended in the atmosphere creating a rainbow ring around the moon on the 21st hour. It moved me. I programmed the camera to take consecutive...View all