Awesome image I love it Hugs Susan~

i so love dunes

This is just gorgeous! What a wonderful dune! I hope your shoes survived :)

Bare feet best..

Very cool capture

Very nice shot.

Oh, to walk bare foot there! Reminds me of a beach in south west Sweden where I spent a few summers in a distant relative's summer cottage (but no mountains in the background!). This is SO nice to look at! Thanks for the post! :-)

So familiar, there's something so wonderful about beach dunes--beautiful shot!!

Beautiful place Bill!! Looks like rough walking with the wrong footwear though hehe

I agree with Andrea, I can feel the sand on my feet, lovely pic!!!!

THis looks so beautiful. I would like to burry my bare feet in that sand :-)

It looks a fantastic place to explore! Great capture Bill!

Wow !!!!! Beautiful landscape . Great composition.

great landscape

Dreams... I must get down to the dunes again. Very inspirational, Clive

Fabulous capture of these wavy dunes, I just love to walk in the dunes like this.. Super Posting Bill..

Your work just gets better and better all the time... this is beautiful!

Wonderful landscape. Great shot!!

Dune hiking is great isn't it. Well done on this Bill.

awesome image

Well worth the sandy shoes to get this splendid capture, it is beautiful and very clear too.

Very nice Bill! Sand washes off.

I love the layers of grass going back and back and back. Great perspective, and the sand really does look wonderful! :) You remind me that I haven't touched this series yet ... I'll have to get busy!

I like dunes. I admit it's because "Dune" also happens to be the title of one of my favorite novels. I shall, however, refrain from quoting Bene Gesseritt sayings throughout the body of this comment. I also like dunes because they're just so darn weird. I always wonder what's under them, and if that something might be revealed when they move on...since dunes have a pronounced sense of wanderlust and they never stay put. These are nicely anchored (for a minute) by the grass, which makes me think that any fictional Fremen in the area are probably hard at work getting water, while also trying to maintain the ecological balances that allow their oh-so-revered sandworms to survive. Funny how one picture evokes all of that, but then, Frank Herbert spent a lot of time hopping around the Pacific Northwest photographing dunes (and measuring them) while doing research for what was to become his magnum opus. And so there you have it: mental wanderings from the mind of Chip, and how dune-like those wanders are...they'll shift and change and blow somewhere else on the winds of whimsy within an hour and this comment will be the only record of their existence. And so having said all of that I'll also say that I like this picture immensely. And I agree with Andrea. Bare feet on dunes is best, unless there are scorpions around. This is a great shot and I love the light. The shadows are magical and that sky is high-drama indeed. This rocks.

MAGNIFIQUE

This is a photo worthy of a National Geographic calendar, Bill! Walking/climbing really big dunes is quie a workout - and yes, that sand gets in your shoes, and everywhere else! I was cleaning sand out of my camera bag for a week after I got home from Florida. If you've never been to White Sands, NM, it's definitely worth a trip - especially now you and Tara have that fancy home-on-wheels! Just watch out for those really big worms....

Ahhh! I remember this place...and I really want that house up on the hill, seem to recall Mandy enjoyed it here too......

I also love the look of Dunes, the eeriness of them, the spaciness they need - they appear so incomplete - but forever vast - in just one word 'magical' ... BB PS best - no shoes!

Lovely. looks allot easier than what we did today. i am shattered after Ten miles of hard walking, mainly in short gorse bushes,

Excellent shot Bill and I especially like it without human foot prints. I did notice animal tracks and that is OK and maybe even Mandy. Nice background with the waves, mountains and clouds. Dana