A Living Desert by Meisiekind
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Hi Friends
This image was shot in the northern Namib desert! (Stone Desert.) The ocean is about 800m behind my back! This bizarre black colored mountains is very close to the road. The rocks really look like charcoal and is the result of some volcanic activity some eons ago!!!
What fascinated me most was the life all around me. There where some plants flowering on the rocks and a myriad species of lichen flourishing on the rocks in the foreground. I took some close-ups of the lichen and will post them soon. This is also the spot where I had a very close encounter with a very poisonous scorpion, but more about that later!!!
Thank you for you very kind comments and favs on my dunes upload of last night!!!
Take care!
Hugs, Carin xx
Comments (48)
wonderful landscape!!!!! Fantastic photo!!!!!
fantastic image !!
A very striking image. Beautiful work - the colors and textures are great.
Marvelous image!
Outstanding. The colorful foreground completely offsets the gray, foreboding background. Nice shooting:)
This is a very unique shot. It looks like the rocks are oxidizing. Splendid shot!
Fanstastic photo
I love this picture its great to see were the plants I grow come from. any chance of pics of succulents.thanks for a great view.
wonderful image!!
Gorgeous rocks
SUPERLATIVE CAPTURE!
doesn't look like a nice place to live but does look like a nice place for photo's. A very nice one too
wow Carin, what a fantastic shot of this colorful rocks against the grey of the background
Wonderful. These are moistened by the sea mists at night? And is this "The Skeleton Coast?"
Wonderful photo! Love this tour you have us on
Oh, this is like another world! How incredibly beautiful!
Love the layers here. Looks like mother nature painted this scene just for you to capture it. Gorgeous image Carin!
Wow! One would never think of the desert with this kind of beauty. Amazing color, lichen so unexpected! Fabulous Carin!
You live an adventurous, devil-may-care life indeed, Carin! The bizarre black mountains at the top of the image with the undulating spike formations immediately remind me of a stegosaurus dinosaur. And I really like the brutish highly textured rocks in the foreground. Shades of 1,000,000 BC in this photo!
Wonderful series to show your land in many face. Most exciting capture.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh. After my own heart. I want to go there!
What a surreal landscape!! It looks like something out of the old Star Trek series or the old Lost in Space series from tv. Amazing place this is and a wonderful capture, Carin!
I'm loving the lichen and looking forward to the macro shots. I think that I can see four different varieties. Nice background. Dana P
Stunning capture Carin.
What a gorgeous contrast--and to think the ocean is just behind you; makes it even more amazing!!
WOW Carin, it is wonderful. SO many lovely colors there. Beautiful.
Fantastic colors and stone textures. Excellent shot of this impressive landscape!
some how i dont think i would like to walk around in there on my own, it looks creepy, excellent capture.
What an amazing place! It's quite beautiful, in a stark and (to me) totally unfamiliar way. Thanks! :)
What an exciting picture! I'm looking forward to the lichen!