Dune above camp near Bahariya Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt
Bedouin Tea, served extra sweet
Early morning sunlight illuminates a sand dune, Western Desert
Landcruisers descend into a wadi in the Sahara Suda (Black Desert), Egypt
Sahara Suda (Black Desert) the moment after sunset
Our bedouin guide, Mahmood contemplating the White Desert
Trekking above a sand dune in the White Desert, Egypt
Mahmood collecting fire wood in the White Desert
Mahmood guides us across the White Desert
Sam McConnell prepares for a night under the stars, White Desert
Sand ripples at the edge of the Sahara Beida (White Desert)
4X4 tracks at camp in the Western Desert
Khaled ties camping equipment to the top of the Landcruiser
Monoliths (inselbergs) of the White Desert at sunset
Landcruiser stuck in the sand in the Western Desert
Sam McConnell walks amongst the chalk rock formations of the White Desert
Moments before sunset at El-Khiyam “The Tents”, White Desert
4X4 Camp amongst El-Khiyam “The Tents”, White Desert
Mahmood & Khaled rest after trekking amongst The Tents, White Desert
Sunset abovet El-Khiyam “The Tents”, Sahara Beida (White Desert)
Khaled, deep in thought with a glass of sweet tea. Western Desert
Wind sculpted chalk waves and sand in the White Desert
Moonlit Camp in the White Desert
Chalk sculptures catch the setting sunlight in the White Desert
Sunset above the the chalk rock formations of the White Desert near Farafra
Aish el-Ghorab “The Mushrooms”, chalk sculptures, White Desert, Egypt
The Mushrooms, chalk sculptures, White Desert
Sunset in the White Desert, Egypt
These photographs document a trekking and 4×4 journey through the Western Desert of Egypt. Starting at Bahariya Oasis we travelled through the Sahara Suda (Black Desert) and Sahara Beida (White Desert) ending up near Farafra. As a compliment to these images I produced a second, more abstract series of photographs entitled “Sahara Sands” from the same trip.
The journey was undertaken with desert explorer Sam McConnell who runs highly recommended adventure travel expeditions to the region in collaboration with Abou Anis of Sub Sinai, off-road driver Khaled, and the bedouin of Bahariya Oasis
Signed limited edition prints of this series are available at £195 each (60x40cm). To purchase please contact me. Larger sizes also available
Edit: I’m delighted that this post is featured in Freshly Pressed. Check out “Glimpses Of Iran” which was Freshly Pressed last year. Thanks for all your likes and comments and follow my Facebook Page to see my latest work
Edit 2! I’m even more chuffed this post has been featured in Editors’ Picks of the Year: The Best of WordPress.com in 2013 thanks guys!
Edit 3! If you enjoyed this have a look at Wadi Rum Journey which was the follow up to this project
Wow! Some of these look like moonscapes. These are stunning, Quintin.
It felt like that while there – hard to believe its on planet earth
What a wonderful experience! and memories! and photographs!. I left Egypt, originally planned that way, the day after the uprisings started. I wonder what happened to our guide. He was a nice, pleasant, hard working man with a wife and two daughters. Like everyone else we met in Cairo, he was worried about his job. The packaged breakfasts we didn’t take were happily accepted by men working at the hotel. The history is remarkable, memorable, but the living conditions, the poverty, the underfed horses, touched my sensitive side. When I commented about the horses I was told feeding the people was a greater concern. The Egyptians are so proud of their past, they don’t work to improve the future. Unlike Israel, their emphasis is the past. Now if we could educate them, how much better a place to visit.
Love your photos. Esther
These are just amazing shots, but how lucky is it to even be able to experience that!
Thanks Endlessframe
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Egypt is on my Bucket List (a word freshly added to the dictionary). Quintin allows me to travel vicariously with his beautifully spare, architectural photography, with heart and an appreciation for nature.
Thanks for the reblog Spirited Soul
Gorgeous evocative images!
Many thanks!
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Amazing photographs of Egypt’s Western ‘White’ Desert
EgyptianStreets, Thanks for the reblog!
Absolutely wonderful photographs. You have inspired me to visit the Western Desert!
Yes its a wonderful place and 100% safe to travel to at the moment
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Olya, Thanks for the reblog!
Awesome. I just finished a trek through Cyrene and Apollonia, Green Mountains and a snippet of the Sahara Desert (Libya). It was absolutely amazing. This is great inspiration for editing and uploading photos.
Sounds great, I look forward to seeing the photos. Travelling on foot is always the best way to see a new place
stunning photographs…loved them…am sure to experience it, must have been exhilirating.
liked them all especially this one ‘Sam McConnell prepares for a night under the stars, White Desert’
Thats the image that sums up the trip for me too. It was exhilarating to be in such a peaceful timeless place for an extended time. Especially when one thinks in was once under the ocean. We found fossilised sea shells, sharks teeth and petrified wood.
oh wow..such bliss…well done!
Beautiful photos. The desert is for prophets, poets and wanderers.
Indeed…..
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Hey Quintin! This is my first time viewing Your work and your blog yet UI am so glad i saw this on Freshly pressed! Photography is so expressive and Poetic and Poetry and Writing is what I love.
These photos are spectacular! I have always wanted to go to Egypt,The Valley of Kings in particular. I would like to sit atop one of the Pyramids or near one of the statues and compose a poem,sounds so magical and spiritual to me!
If i ever do in fact get to travel to Egypt it will be a very long time from now,That i am certain of. I might never get to go so for right now your photos are all I need to be inspired and compose a new Poem!
Thanks you so much for all of your hard work and your artistic ability’s! These Photos are truly a blessing!
You have Adopted a new fan & Subscriber for Life.
~Shane
Glad you found these inspiring. Russian photographers recently, and illegally, scaled the top of these pyramids and made these cool photos http://www.petapixel.com/2013/03/26/russian-photographers-sneak-to-top-of-great-pyramid-and-capture-the-view/
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amazing place, amazing photos
Thanks, glad you liked it
Beautiful, artistic, amazing! Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks!
I am travelling to Egypt for 3 months, starting in June. Since I have seen you beautiful pictures, I really can’t wait to go! Thanks for the amazing fortaste of what is to come 🙂
Hope you have a good time, its actually better to travel there now as there are very few tourists
Thank you. My mother is trying to talk me out of it, because it is a “war zone”, but that’s never gonna happen! 🙂
There’s 20 million people in Cairo alone – the troubles are disproportionately exaggerated in the media
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Been to Egypt many times. Love the beach and food. The history and art is remarkable. Great shots by the way.
yes the culture goes back a long way 🙂
Beautiful photos! Egypt is my very favorite place on earth and I love how you have captured it’s beauty! Thank you for sharing!
glad you think I’ve done it justice
Watching the stars seems to be a nice experience….
it sure is!
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Take this gorgeous photographic journey through the Western Desert
Thanks for reblogging
Really exotic landscapes. 🙂
yes – I used to think deserts were flat expanses of sand!
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Amazing pics
thanks!
My favorites were the pictures with the chalk sculptures, but I loved all of them!
Amazing to imagine those chalk rocks are sculpted by wind and sand only
*Jaw dropping* these are beautiful. i have a picture really looks like ‘Bedouin Tea, served extra sweet’ , but with coal as heater or fire source.
Thanks Yuna, its certainly just the thing after a long walk in the sun. But being English I would say that!
You are welcome :).
Oh, okay i see.
These pictures look amazing!
glad you like them
beautiful landscapes. Interesting country.
Thanks Leslie
Wow, these are fantastic!! Thanks for sharing them.
Thanks Fiona
Breathtaking pictures .The Egyptian desert is history by itself.Amazing Traveling.Wishing you success.jalal
Thanks Jalal
beautiful pics 🙂
Thanks Abdul
That’s a great post with wonderful, real pictures! I wish, in my time in Jordan, that I had also taken the time for a trip of multiple days through the desert. I only had my weekly 3-hour trips.
Still i’m sure experienced the magic of the desert to some extent. I hope to visit Jordon one day…
I sure did, I was there for 7 months and my job required me to visit the desert Wadi Rum weekly (lucky me). During that time, I’ve made so many pictures. I’s difficult to choose from them 🙂
I can imagine – I’ve got some unfulfilled Indian Jones fantasies to enact in Wadi Rum!
So beautiful and other-worldly
Thanks SJ
Absolutely fabulous photos. Thank you for sharing this amazing part of the worls!
Thanks Dean
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Some of these look like an alien world. Amazing. I’d like to go to the Western Desert sometime.
Yes it feels like it too, thanks
Fantastic photos!!
Thank you!
That kind of pristine space strikes a soothing chord, it feels so good in the body. You have a wonderful eye for composition and balance, your decisions have enhanced the space. Your work inspires the wanderers to visit more wide open vistas, to let all that sun and air wash the heart clean.
What was the temperature when you were there? What did the air smell like? Was the sand coarse or quite fine? Did it make music for you when you walked down the dunes?
Hi Allthoughtswork, thoughtful questions. As the journey was in February it was cold at night: just above freezing. I slept in a 3 season sleeping bag with the hood up and a hat. I didn’t have a thermometer for the day time temperature but it varied from hot to very hot! We walked from the early morning to about 11am and then started walking again at 3pm. Between at 11 and 3 it was too hot to walk so we found or made shade and rested. On one occasion I suffered from the heat and had to drink salt and sugar in water and rest to feel better. I’d actually drunk too much water without any salt – the body need the sodium to absorb the water – I learnt that the hard way!
The air smells of freedom and encourages one to breath deeply. The sand varies from coarse gravel to the finest talc powder in the white desert, the rocks are made from chalk and this gets turned into powder by the wind. I was always having to protect my camera from the dust – so I stored it in a waterproof canoe bag in my backpack and tried to change lenses when it wasn’t windy. I’d heard about the “Singing Sands” but i didn’t experience that: its more common in South Sinai and Namibia.
Ah, yes, heat exhaustion. The pounding headache is my least favorite part of the ride. I think they put warnings about that in the brochure when you sign up in life to be an adventurer but none of us ever read the fine print.
That’s quite a point spread in temperature. You lived the proof that having lots of plants around acts like a giant thermostat to balance the day and NOT having them around…well…doesn’t. Did you witness the animal nightlife? Lizards? Beetles?
Fascinating about the sand textures. With a buffet of rocks for the wind to sample, it’s no wonder it came up with a smorgasbord of sands. At the Great Sand Dunes National Monument in Colorado the sand is pretty evenly fine so when you run down a steep dune, the friction causes an eerie squeaking beneath your boots if you hit the ground just right. Fun! No doubt you inadvertently smuggled a selection of sand out of there in, shall we say, unique and uncomfortable places.
Reason I ask about the smell of the place is because scent is linked so closely in the brain to memory. The barest whiff of something that carried emotional weight in the past will replay the event for you like a mental DVD. I’ll bet you could draw up the memory of all sorts of little things on that trip if you just close your eyes and remember the smell of your sleeping bag, the dry scent of the chalk rock, the change in aroma from the top of a dune down into the bottom of a wadi, the unique smell of local wood burning, the exhaust from the 4 x 4, etc.
Thank you for sharing your adventure with us.
Yes there were lizards and beetles and even a fox in areas where quite a few people go to camp near the road. I appreciate that scents can be evocative – whenever I smell creosote i’m transported to being a five years old watch my father paint our fence. However on this trip, walking all day in the heat for days on end without a shower, the aromas were not the most evocative!
That’s why all those photos of rugged sportsmen in Backpacker Magazine are not scratch and sniff. 😉
Stunning vistas! . . . My husband and I spent a few days in Sharm el-Sheikh several years ago and had a wonderful time! Your photos make me want to go back to Egypt and explore the beautiful tapestry of the western dessert!
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Hi Michele – well its’ a good time to go, you’ll have the place to yourself!
Yes, indeed! . . . Keep up the great work! And thank you for the “follow.” I plan to follow your blog, as well!
Loved the photographs!!! Wonderful clicks 🙂
Thanks Yopinks
Beautiful photos! Fascinating to see how different it is from the desert here in the UAE.
How is the desert around UAE?
It’s not nearly as rugged. Interesting that you are an architectural photographer and you went to a desert with so many architectural features. 🙂 Here are some photos I took from a quick trip out to the desert near Dubai. (obviously not as good as yours though!) http://longhornsandcamels.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/dunebashing-in-dubai/
We will be going to Liwa soon which is on the edge of the biggest desert in the world. Should be interesting!
Interesting: looks more like the “sand sea” in egypt. The structure was a coincidence 🙂 I’ve been to some very desolate arctic deserts before https://blog.quintinlake.com/2010/12/11/arctic-images-win-portfolio-category-of-travel-photographer-of-the-year-tpoty-2010/
The colours are stark … and amazingly vivid ….
Most of the vivid pictures were taken half an hour before sunset or just after. The colours are very flat most of the day due to the heat and vast skies
I had been about to comment that it was rather brave of you to have gone into the desert. Its when you learn how difficult life is in so many other parts of the world .. of which we have really no experience … living as city slickers that we are. Lovely to have connected. Roda
I’ve never been to Egypt, it’s definitely now on my list of places to go! Your photos are absolutely stunning, so surreal! Thank you for sharing!
Surreal sums it up! thanks
I had no idea the deserts of Egypt had those formations, though I should have I guess. Beautiful. A few of the scenes I would have sworn were the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico. For the first time ever, I’m thinking I need to make it to Egypt…
I’d never heard of the Basti badlands till I read your comment. I had a quick google and yes its very similar. The US always surprises me as it has such varied landscape
Most people in the U.S. haven’t heard of the Bisti Badlands either. Even people in the western US, which is a shame, because its a remarkable landscape. Yes, we have a rich variety of landscapes here – I’m regularly amazed as well.
Wow, great photos, they really give the feeling of being there. When I was in Egypt I had the pleasure of going there as well.
Glad it brought back good memories
Outstanding photos! I regret not having included this when we went to Egypt a few years ago.
but I see from your blog you saw a lot of god stuff! The western desert isn’t on a lot of itineraries and when it is its often a rushed overnight trip from Cairo which doesn’t allow the mind to slow down in time with the timeless landscape
Yes, that is the reason we scrapped it. I was suffering from a bad drug reaction while on that trip and was on pain killers throughout. Hope to return someday 🙂
Wow, these photos are incredible!!! I miss the desert. It’s one of those rare places that holds the magic of once you’ve been there it lives within you forever…
yes I quite agree
Gorgeous photos! I love the white desert snaps. Such a wonder.
Thanks – yes the white desert should be a unesco site
This is quite a shot! How is Egypt? It looks gorgeous!
Its amazing you should go!
Amazing photographs. I would love to visit Egypt someday ^_^
now is a good time! not so many tourists
I wish I could. Still busy with school and getting my life sorted out after school 😛
Wow, some truly amazing photos. Wonderful to look at 🙂
thanks LofC
Stunning! Hope I’ll be taking photo’s like these someday too!
Thanks! i’m sure you will if you are fascinated by your subject
This is what I imagine Mars looks like. How hot is this desert? I can imagine getting lost in it.
its very easy to get lost with the amongst the mounds when the sun goes down, if there are no stars you need a compass
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EGYPT ❤ I would love to visit and work there some day!
hope it works out for you
Beautiful, Isn’t it?!
yes!
OMG…the photos are amazing!
Cheers San
Absolutely scrumptious photogs, Quintin! Wow! 🙂
glad you found ’em tasty!
I’m Egyptian-born and these photos are incredible. Thanks for sharing them.
Thanks Bassam you hail from a beautiful country
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The marvel of our very own planet!!Beautiful pictures.
Thanks!
Fantastic images!
Thanks!
Wow. Just wow.
Thanks!
Epic shots. Well done and congratulations on being freshly pressed. Cheers.
Cheers SW
Great to find your photography Quintin through freshly pressed (I always think being freshly pressed sounds like it might be slightly painful) Such an amazing set of images and I’m going to enjoy looking at the other archi stuff here too. hope you had a cool Easter
Thanks Chas now you mention it…. it does sound like a mild form of torture!
It’s really deserved – so suffer for your art you must – as Yoda would say 🙂
A lovely set of images on a trip you obviously enjoyed. An incredible looking place.
Thanks i’ll be interested to follow your African adventures
Nature is the most awesome architect!
well put!
Thanks
I didn’t know about the chalk–it suggests a past for the desert quite different from the present. Does it suggest a future different as well?
Thats certainly how the landscape made me feel
These are really stunning. The landscape is so vast….it must make one realize how small we are! The white chalk almost looks like snow. So interesting!
Thanks. My favourite for showing the scale of it is this shot http://quintinlake.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Western-Desert-Journey-Egypt/G0000kFUwXry.h20/I0000nXM_akxEJoU/C0000JnIJLx1O284
Holy smokes… fro a second I didn’t even see the person in the shot. Amazing.
it looks unearthly but beautiful! hope it’s not April fool’s joke, it’s hard to believe it’s true 🙂
my photoshop skills aren’t that good 🙂
What awesome shots! IT amazes me how the white chalk isn’t snow!
Yes it really does looks like snow
Thanks for posting this blog. http://www.segmation.wordpress.com
Absolutely incredible! Added it to my bucket list!
you could have fun with your macro out there
Haha i bet! Im guessing that means you stopped by. Much appreciated! Egypt has always been a fascinating place to me, ever since I was a kid.
Visiting your site brought back wonderful memories of when I was in Egypt.
Glad to hear!
Great eye and direction for taking such stunning shots and retaining a certain mood about them.
Thanks Lila, glad you enjoyed them. You might like my series on the Thames https://blog.quintinlake.com/2012/09/02/sweet-thames-run-softly-till-i-end-my-song/
very powerful set of photos.
Thanks
Beautiful!
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Thanks
Beautiful photographs!
thanks!
As an Egyptian, these images are beyond inspiring. I am currently researching the various means by which Egyptians can restore the vitality once evident in tourism, but your images have reminded me that stats, figures, and numbers can only get you so far. I hope you enjoyed your time : )
Hi Nora, I’m touched you find these images of your homeland inspiring. The greatest praise for a photograph is if they can say something to those most familiar with the subject, thank you. I had a wonderful time and good luck with your research.
I cannot tell you the feeling these photos gave me! Such wonderful shots, thank you for sharing.
good to hear!
Fantastic shots. Love them!
Great, thanks
Stunning pics!
Thanks G.O
great pictures. We just got back from the Namib desert which was probably the best trip we’ve ever been on. I’d be happy to hear your thoughts on the pictures we took. (gesundheitsuze.wordpress.com)
Namib looks great, Sam McConnell whom I travelled with is an expert on the area. Regarding your photos I like the first shot most: good light and composition. In my opinion, the third shot would be improved if you crop in so the figure is top left of frame and the curve of the sand would lead the eye to the figure. Pictures with the main subject centred look more static.
Fantastic photos. Thanks so much for sharing. Connie
Thanks Connie!
The White Desert, so incredibly evocative. The washed-out nature of it makes it seem like a dream.
Yes I agree – this is my favourite shot http://is.gd/IntvXt
These were positively stunning – They inspired me in not only wanting to travel to the desert but to start exploring how to capture pictures with a more artistic eye. I’m a new fan, glad I found this!
Thanks, glad they are inspiring for your travels and photography
Great pics, amazing desert lines!
Cheers Pachan
These are stunning photographs! I love the “tents” images and the wind sculpted chalk waves but they all make for a beautiful photo gallery. Were you nervous to be in Egypt? I’ve been told it’s one of the most unsafe places to travel to…?
I wasn’t nervous, I travelled with Egyptians whose instinct on any trouble I trusted. Cairo is a massive city: 20 million people the majority of whom its business and life as normal. The protests have happened in very isolated areas – although the media portrays the county like a war zone!
That’s amazing! Thanks for writing back. Do you have any more photography trips planned?
Amazing! I envy you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing photos, what an incredible experience!
Thanks Mel
What an amazing place! I love the fire and sand.
that image stays in my mind too
Found your blog through Freshly Pressed. Congrats on that, and WoW! these photos are amazing. I look forward to gaining inspiration from your site to be a better photographer.
Its a wonderful way to enjoy the world around us!
Looks like an amazing place to see !!! Great photos, super inspiring!
Thanks Samara
Excellent photography and exceptionally creative!!!!
Thanks Kathleen
I love this
Thanks!
You have some remarkable photos. I think my favorite is the sunset above El Khlyam.
I stayed for several days out in Siwa a few years ago. The desert in Egypt is awesome. Congrats on being freshly pressed.
Siwa looks amazing – we would have gone there but was too close to Libya for our liking at the moment
Didn’t manage to get quite as far into the Sahara as you did but was in awe of how empty it was – http://shanewozere.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/standing-at-the-edge-of-the-world-aswan-egypt-nov-2010/
You are right – it really feels like the edge of the world
I’m middle eastern and i am naturally gravitated to pictures from the Middle East and Egypt. These are absolutely beautiful! I love it!
Thank you. As you are Middle Eastern you may enjoy these pictures from Iran too https://blog.quintinlake.com/2012/08/15/faces-of-iran-2/
Stunning photos of a stunning place. My world is too small.
go out and travel if you feel that – its easy 🙂
I have been doing a lot of research on traveling to Egypt in the near future, you are making that decision much easier. Awesome stuff, I will be looking out for more in the future
Glad to hear its inspiring. I’d recommend going soon – very few tourists 🙂
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Wonderful!!
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Wonderful!!
Thanks for reblogging. If you enjoyed these here’s the follow-on project in Wadi Rum, Jordan http://is.gd/AlvtpX
Quintin, some fantastic shots! Not only does it make me want to see Egypt more than ever, it makes me really miss being a photographer.
Cheers Bryan, well its a quiet time to visit – you’ll have the pyramids to yourself!
Delle stupende foto che rendono perfettamente l’idea… non mi piacciono i soliti poster per turisti frettolosi 🙂 per quelle persone che pensano di conoscere un paese in una settimana di tour de force. Penso che per apprezzare veramente ciò che si vede, tocca, odora e percepisce è necessario farlo come tu mostri. Un sacco a pelo, una 4X4 e delle buone guide con le quali poster condividere l’emozione!
Claudine
Thanks Claudine. If you enjoyed this series here’s the follow-on project in Wadi Rum, Jordan http://is.gd/AlvtpX
Photos make me want to visit Egypt, Stunning landscape, Talented photographer.
Thanks, If you enjoyed this series here’s the follow-on project in Wadi Rum, Jordan http://is.gd/AlvtpX
Stunning photos. I’ve been seeing you post them on FB but it’s fabulous to see them all together here.
Thanks Sue. If you enjoyed this series here’s the follow-on project in Wadi Rum, Jordan http://is.gd/AlvtpX
Excellent photos Quintin! I am from Egypt, living in Cairo. Please let me know if you are revisiting Egypt in case you need any support.
Thanks for your offer of help – in fact I’ve just been back to Egypt but it was en route to Wadi Rum, Jordan http://is.gd/AlvtpX I hope its peaceful around you in Cairo
Excellent pictures. Some of the pictures carried a feel which i loved like the one where a man reading a book under the sky with torch as its companion.
Your pictures sometimes depict the ultimate form of freedom which is serene.
I watched the Greenland documentary and loved it.
Keep up the good work. All the best for your future travels.
Thanks for your insightful comments. I’m planning to make a book/exhibition of the most abstract/ serene images this year. After a few years of doing this its capturing the stillness and silence that interests me the most. I’ve just returned from Wadi Rum, Jordan http://is.gd/AlvtpX
These photos are incredible. I had no idea that the Egyptian desert had formations like that. You have definitely inspired me to add the Western Desert to my evergrowing list of places to visit, and to keep following your blog.
Good to hear on both counts! Here’s the follow-on project in Wadi Rum, Jordan to add to your list http://is.gd/AlvtpX
Love This!!
Thanks! here’s the follow-on project in Wadi Rum, Jordan http://is.gd/AlvtpX
Really nice pictures! Egypt… I would like to go there …
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Thanks Anthony here’s the follow on project in Wadi Rum, Jordan http://is.gd/AlvtpX
Nice shots, and a stunning desert. You’ve just put another place in my mind.
Good! Just come back from Jordan if you’d like to see another desert http://is.gd/AlvtpX
Incredibly beautiful pictures. It’s amazing how sand can take infinite form. Thank you for posting those. I really must return to Egypt now!
Agree the shapes are fascinating – thanks
Just shared this in Facebook. Very inspiring. You have the photographer’s eye all right 🙂
Thanks Prometheus – i try to keep it exercised by rapid blinking!
Pretty! This has been a really wonderful article.
Thanks for supplying this info.
Thanks Donna
Gorgeous Quentin, thanks for sharing,
Thanks here’s the follow on project in Wadi Rum, Jordan http://is.gd/AlvtpX
Love all of your photography Quentin, amazing
Thanks for stopping by Tanya
Quentin, some of your desert shots are truly awesome. Nice work.
Cheers! glad you found them inspiring
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The harsh and spartan beauty of Egypt.
Cheers Archer
Simply stunning!
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I came across these stunning shots of the Western Desert by professional photographer Quintin Lake… My iphone shots of my own journey through the Sinai desert to Taba to cross the Egypt/Israel border doesn’t compare! So I’m reblogging this post because it does the Egyptian desert so much justice! … Simply stunning photography!
hey thanks for reblogging! Its a difficult subject to capture in a photograph – i ended up pretty much giving up other than for the hours around dawn & dusk. I just came back from Wadi Rum on a follow-on journey which you might like too http://is.gd/AlvtpX
The Wadi Rum photos are also great! They remind me of my New Year’s Eve experience in the Sinai with the Bedouins… Though my iPhone shots don’t do the scenario any justice! The best shots are those I captured in my memory I suppose! http://wp.me/p48e4z-w8
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One of the best photos of the Western Desert in Egypt 🙂
Thanks for reblogging and the compliments – I’ve since made a journey in Wadi Rum http://is.gd/AlvtpX & St Catherine’s http://is.gd/EgH08W that may be of interest
you are welcome 🙂
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Very nice photos! The one that grips me is the fellow picking sticks for a fire. Where did the sticks come from, and what grew there before it became a DESERT?
Hi Hubert – I agree it was amazing sight to see the beduin gather life from this inhospitable environment – to my surprise there are a few shrubby plants if you know where to look. Although not in the sand seas which make up most of the Sahara. What amazed me was finding shark teeth fossilised in rocks and imagining the desert as a sea bed.
WOW Quintin Just another proof of a Global flood about 4000 years ago right?
Genesis chapter 6 I think it is tells the entire story from Gods perspective.
I’d love to see these places in person as you have, but I’m glad you shared them too.
Wonderful indeed. Every pick has its own story!
Thanks Harbans
My pleasure.
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Those are amazing pictures ! You don’t need to write a word to explain your story, you pictures can explain everything !
Thanks Evelyn
Stunning 😀 😀 😀
Thanks!
COME TO IRAN TO SEE THE REAL DESERT!
Hi Parham, I have Iran is one of my favourite countries have a look here https://blog.quintinlake.com/2012/08/15/faces-of-iran-2/
Wonderful stories…i hope i can there
glad you’ve enjoyed the journey!
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Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.
– Terry Pratchett
Thanks for the apt quote
Beautiful.