Christmas Valley Dune
by Mike Lee
Title
Christmas Valley Dune
Artist
Mike Lee
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
This image is of a dune in the Christmas Valley Sand Dunes in the Oregon desert. I captured the photo while stretching my legs on the drive south heading back to my “home base” in Northern California. As I walked around a bit I was struck by all the wonderful lines and textures that were pretty much everywhere. If my schedule wasn’t so tight, and I wasn’t being sandblasted, I could have spent hours there lost in the scene.
On this day a low pressure system was on its way out and there were still sporadic rain showers in the area and the sky was quite moody. In this shot I got as low as my old knees would allow to try to take optimum advantage of the filtered light playing off the undulations of the sand at the edge of the dune.
The Christmas Valley dunes are a very popular destination for the off highway vehicle crowd and span some 11,000 acres starting several miles north of Lake Abert on US Highway 395.
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October 14th, 2021
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Comments (9)
Cat Culpepper
I use to live straight up the mountain from there, one day I decided to go exploring and decided to go to Christmas Valley expecting to see a lot of Christmas trees, there were none to be found but discovered a part of Oregon that is so diverse and mysterious . beautiful capture.. the skies , the textures...
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the feature archive discussion. There are many other discussions in the group where you can promote your art even further more.
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is FEATURED on the home page of the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group. Be sure to add this wonderful image to the Feature Archive in the Discussion section! L/F 10/6/22
Nancy Carol Photography
Well done! Excellent and thank you for sharing with us your wonderful work of art that has been proudly presented on the Home Page of the group, 'ART FOR PASSION - PASSION FOR ART'. If you wish, you may archive it permanently or promote it further in the Discussions Tabs titled, "Oct Nov Dec 2022 Features."
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