Dubai Desert Safari — Dune Bashing Sunset
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A 4WD convoy photographed dune bashing in the Dubai desert at sunset — the vehicles at steep angles on the red sand dune faces, the sand plumes from the tyres golden in the last light, the desert extending to the horizon.
Description
Dubai’s desert safari experience — traversing the red sand dunes of the Lahbab desert east of the city in high-clearance 4WD vehicles driven by specialist dune-driving guides — is one of the emirate’s defining experiential offerings. The dunes of the Lehbab area rise to 100 metres and their steep slip-face angles provide the extreme gradients that make dune bashing visually spectacular. This photograph was made from a stationary position at the crest of a secondary dune, with a telephoto lens that compressed the distance between the convoy vehicles on the main dune face and exaggerated the steepness of the angles. The late-afternoon desert sun at 6pm — 30 minutes before the Dubai sunset catches the sand plumes from the climbing vehicles in a backlit condition that renders the disturbed sand as golden vapour trails. The dune crests in the background drop to the desert floor 800 metres below, establishing the landscape scale.
