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25-MAR-2016

Off the Makkah Highway

We took a drive south in the direction of Jeddah looking for the popular Red Sand Dunes, but simply couldn’t find them with the sketchy directions we had. It turns out, we took a wrong turn so will try another weekend to find them. What we did go through was sort of scrubby landscape and not too picturesque.

We saw some Bedouin tents like this one.

Rock formations, posted earlier:


Nikon D810 ,Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
1/500s f/8.0 at 70.0mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time25-Mar-2016 14:54:05
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ModelNIKON D810
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Focal Length70 mm
Exposure Time1/500 sec
Aperturef/8
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias-0.33
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Julie Oldfield27-Mar-2016 14:06
Excellent capture. Interesting to see the tents and modern transportation. V
hamery27-Mar-2016 09:20
A morden " Lawrence of Arabia ". Dramatic composition with wonderful tone, Helen. V
Alexander Kazakov27-Mar-2016 08:36
Good capture! V
David Lewins27-Mar-2016 08:25
Wonderful composition
Tom LeRoy27-Mar-2016 08:20
Now we can see the country landscape through your lens, so different from the big buildings! V
Zoltán Balogh27-Mar-2016 07:24
Great compo, and a very interesting view for the European eye. V
Chris Morton27-Mar-2016 07:10
...and some camels, goodee!!
Gerard Koehl27-Mar-2016 06:52
Superbe composition. V
Ton, Ben & Rob Nagtegaal27-Mar-2016 06:43
Beautiful well composed image Helen, great work. V