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Liquid of life by MartinKrajczy

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Liquid of life in the Namib desert. We did follow this thunderstorm for a few hours . The rain fall was always on our left hand side. It was great to observe it moving through the desert building a stripe of grass. After a few hours we nearly had to drive through… tough winds were coming up out of nothing and the silence of the hot desert during afternoon suddenly was gone. It was just awesome to observe the nature forces at work. Since that i know why you drive for hours through a dry landscape with no animals and suddenly there are hundreds of them…. such a thunderstorm happend exactly there 2-3 weeks ago…a miracle of life — Re-mastered version of a shot taken in March this year in the Namib desert

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Solitude by Joel_Santos

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Dead Acacia, against the light, Sossusvlei, Namibia. © Joel Santos – http://www.joelsantos.net

The name “Sossusvlei” means “dead-end marsh”, owing this name to the fact that it was a drainage basin without outflows for the ephemeral Tsauchab River. Most of the sandunes are over 80 meters high and are composed of 5-million-year-old sands, thus making the Namib the oldest desert on Earth.

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Scorching march by Joel_Santos

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Oryx marching at Sossusvlei, Namibia. The name “Sossusvlei” means “dead-end marsh”, owing this name to the fact that it was a drainage basin without outflows for the ephemeral Tsauchab River. Most of the sandunes are over 80 meters high and are composed of 5-million-year-old sands, thus making the Namib the oldest desert on Earth. © Joel Santos – http://www.joelsantos.net

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Magical storm by MartinKrajczy

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Panorama frame (out of eight single frames) – The flanking bench of the oldest desert in this world. At this place you are roughly 700-800 meters above the desert. The rain storms above this place very often ends at this place and the rain doesn´t reach the desert which you can see already. It is always a spectacular view from this place so each time possible we stop by. It is a private farm so we have to ask for access or we stay there over night. Can you imagine that the are in the lower third of the frame does belong to this farm. And it is just the northern end of the farm … a very small part of it. These dimensions are unbelievable for a guy like myself coming from Germany. But that is the reason why i like Namibia…space, space, space and silence, silence, silence.

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Endless beauty by MartinKrajczy

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The Namib desert is the oldest desert of the earth and an endless beauty. This panorama shot (out of six single frames) is taken in the northwest region of the desert. My preferred area as the land belongs to communities and everybody can drive through it. In southern Namibia only the roads are public. Everthing else is private. It is a gift to observe the sunset in such an area. It is so still that you hear each beetle before you see it. Something you would never recognize in our more busy landscapes as there is too much noise from roads, other animals or villages. Really special. This silence is one reason why the Namib desert is one of my favourite places on this planet. You can drive for a couple of days without seeing somebody else. Especially in the lower season.

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