Gobi Desert — Flaming Cliffs Bayanzag at Dusk
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The Flaming Cliffs of Bayanzag in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert at sunset — the red sandstone formations that yielded the first dinosaur eggs glowing deep crimson and orange as the sun sets behind the photographer, the Gobi silence absolute.
Description
The Flaming Cliffs of Bayanzag were named by Roy Chapman Andrews following the American Museum of Natural History expeditions of the 1920s that discovered the first fossilised dinosaur eggs here — the site remains scientifically significant and photographically extraordinary. The red oxidised sandstone of the Bayanzag formation photographs at its most saturated in the final 20 minutes before sunset, when the low-angle sun backlights the dust particles in the air and increases the apparent colour temperature of the rock face to deep crimson and amber. This image was made at that moment from a position at the cliff base, looking up at the 30-metre sandstone walls with a 24mm wide- angle: the red rock fills three-quarters of the frame, the deep blue sky occupying the upper quarter, and the shadow of the approaching night already visible on the cliff’s lower face.
