desert

  • Tone Mapping in the Namibian Desert

    I’ve read a number of explanations of tone mapping, but I confess I still don’t understand what’s going on.  I know it’s a way to manipulate a digital image so that what you see in the image better approximates what you remember having seen in real life – rather than the disappointing result you usually

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  • Namibian Nights: The Best Timelapse Ever

    I’ve looked at a lot of timelapses, and after a certain number of them you just start to want to fast forward through them because they’re spectacular and all, but after awhile everything just sort of starts to look the same.  This one, however, is different.  Not only because I’ve tried to take photos in

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  • Video: Sossusvlei and Namib Desert from the air

    I had an amazing trip to the Namib Desert recently.  The oldest desert in the world, the Namib is where the Tsauchab river ends, seeping into the ground amid towering ochre dunes.  A few gnarled, dried camelthorn trees stand on the baked clay pans that explode into blossom just a few weeks per year.  Surely

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