Madagascar Baobab Avenue — Sunset Silhouettes
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The Avenue of the Baobabs near Morondava, Madagascar at sunset — the ancient Adansonia grandidieri trees silhouetted against an orange sky reflected in a shallow rain-season puddle on the red laterite track.
Description
The Avenue of the Baobabs on the track between Morondava and Belon’i Tsiribihina is Madagascar’s most photographed landscape — a 260-metre section of laterite track flanked by 25 mature Adansonia grandidieri trees of 800 or more years age, their distinctive bottle-shaped trunks rising 30 metres above the track. The sunset photography of the avenue is well-established as a genre, but the image quality depends on timing and conditions: this photograph was made in February during the rain season when water pools in the laterite track ruts, providing a reflection surface that doubles the visual impact of the silhouetted trees. The reflection required positioning the camera 5 centimetres from the puddle surface with a 16mm ultra-wide to include both the reflected and direct tree silhouettes. Shot at f/11, the sky’s orange saturation and the tree silhouette sharpness are preserved.
