Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand (1/6) In May / June 2007 we made a trip through California with a RV-Motor-home. One of the many highlights was Death Valley. Death Valley is an unique, but very hot place in the US. Early in the morning we made a hike for a couple of hours exploring the sand dunes 9CLOSE TO Stovepipe Wells), including climbing the tops of a few of them. Light was that morning a little bit strange, with some haze in the direction towards the mountains. I made a few photo’s and 6 of them I have turned into a duo-tone in the following way. After adjusting the full color in the normal way with Photo-Shop, I converted the photo into a black & white by using the mode: Greyscale. If required , I did some tuning in this phase. The B&W image is converted with Photo-Shop into a “Duo-tone” with the following settings. Ink 1, Black Ink 2, Pantone 453C If required some fine tuning can be made in this phase as well. As final touch, a simple frame for the series of photo’s. By means of this selection / conversion in photo-shop, the amount of white is strongly reduced and the photo turned into a “warmer toned” photo, at least in my opinion and fit for purpose aiming at a more abstracted view on this warm place early in the morning!! Hope you like it, Your comments are highly appreciated, Have a very nice week Henk Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand Death Valley's most accessible sand dunes are just a few miles from Stovepipe Wells. Tucked into Mesquite Flat in the north end of the park, these dunes are nearly surrounded by mountains on all sides. The primary source of the dune sands is probably the Cottonwood Mountains which lie to the north and northwest. The tiny grains of quartz and feldspar that form the sinuous sculptures that make up this dune field began as much larger pieces of solid rock.