Salar de Uyuni Photos

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“(High-resolution versions of most of these photos can be found in the Bolivia folder of our Smugmug page: http://postcardvalet.smugmug.com/)

I tried to put these photos in roughly chronological order, so it may seem like there are some duplicates, because…

We actually went out on the world’s largest salt flats twice because both Oksana and I got very sick on the first trip and had to cancel our tour with Wendy and Dusty of http://roamthepla.net/.

Which was fortunate for us, because that gave us another crack at seeing a sunset on the salar. And boy or boy, did we ever!

I don’t know if I’ve ever shot so many photos I liked in such a short amount of time. Probably should have only posted half as many, but I just couldn’t decide which where the best…

Finally, a bit of the story about our trips to Uyuni can be read here: http://postcardvalet.com/2011/02/26/tormenta-de-uyuni/”

From Salar de Uyuni, February 2011, posted by Arlo Midgett on 3/15/2011 (199 items)

: Salt museum — Thrilling, Exciting, Amazing!

: Salar de Uyuni

: Workers on the Salar

: Fun with perspective

: Tire tracks on the way to the Salt Hotel

: Hot Wheels

: Dusty and Wendy http://roamthepla.net

: I like this one more. I think the expression matches up better.

: In the palm of her hand

: Pringles Technique If do right, no can defend.

: Surprised this worked out so well, considering we only tried staging it once.

: Salar de Uyuni, photo ops

: Exploring the Salar

: I noticed that almost all the salt shapes below the water were six-sided. Wonder if …

: Lunch spread at the Salt Hotel. Just a cup of Coke for me.

: The mood of the day (Oksana and I were very sick)

: I had enough energy to do this, at least

: Close up

: Counting down the time to our hotel beds

: Driving back to Uyuni

: Salt pyramids

: Caravan to the Salt Hotel

: Our outstanding-in-every-way Uyuni tour group!

: Train Graveyard

: E=mc^2

: In a really posh hotel made of salt

: Shut yer train hole!

: Monkeying around

: Look out below

: At the train graveyard

: Getting some perspective

: Salt bricks

: Cute and cuddly

: Ride the llama!

: Salt house, truck

: Oksana relaxing in Cristal Samaña

: Posh Salt Hotel, Cristal Samaña

: Our relationship in a nutshell.

: Spelling out OHIO for Dusty and Wendy

: Uyuni Train Graveyard

: Textures

: Uyuni Train Graveyard

: Or is it, “ON,” upside down?

: Gearing up for our second Uyuni tour

: Uyuni Train Graveyard

: Bags of salt

: The beginnings of the salt flats, not yet wet

: Kind of looks like snow

: Driving on to the salt hotel

: Walking to the flats after lunch, “for digestion.”

: Probably shooting some video or another

: Our Porteño friends on their way to the Salar

: Looking out toward the flats

: Making way for the SUVs

: Kid of falls apart when you look at it another way

: Salt hut by the side of the road

: Driving out onto the flats in the rainy season

: Pull my finger

: Jeep on the horizon

: Honestly, even without the perspective trickery, my neck just doesn’t look right.

: Coming back from the salt hotel, salt mounds

: Desolate hiker

: View from the down low

: Getting briefed

: Closeup on the ground

: Exploring on tip-toes

: Walking on water

: Where were you hiding your Land Cruiser?

: Hold that pose

: You try to pose like that. I dare you.

: Okay, I was jumping.

: Instructing them to move where they needed to be, in Spanish, was tough

: We stole Wendy and Dusty’s idea

: France turned out better than Alaska, but the Argentinian’s should have signed up for…

: Walking back to the SUV

: Salt piles drying

: Reflections

: Floating islands (Actually, that’s not true. It’s more of a peninsula.)

: Clouds brewing

: Reflections

: Salt hotel looming in the distance

: I’m trying to point out home much salt I have on my clothes while eating Skittles.

: Some size differences are too hard to overcome with F-stops

: Close up on salt crystals forming

: Feet and flags

: Shimmering Flats

: Salt pyramid plucked from the ground

: Rémy and Aurélie posing for their own photos

: Check out their site at: http://www.newzfromtheworld.blogspot.com/

: People roaming the flats

: Everyone wants photos

: Jumping for joy because she feels better on this trip!

: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

: Couldn’t get rid of the ripples with only a 10 second self-timer on the camera

: Oksana in the “hot” tub.

: Viva Argentina

: Oh no, they noticed us!

: Joachim decided that since we couldn’t spell out Argentina earlier, that they’d get t…

: Shoot it! Shooooot it!

: This is how the sunset began

: The wind picked up a little, rippling the reflections out of existence.

: Oh noes!

: “Okay, stand up straight. Smile. Now tap your foot! Cooooool!”

: Around now we set up a camcorder on a tripod to timelapse the sunset

: Profile

: Darker, still sort of windy

: This is off to our left, er, to the south, I think

: That person isn’t nearly as far away as they seem

: South view again

: Storm is gathering intensity

: Call this Northwest

: Walking into a storm

: Wide angle

: The colors of the sunset

: Sunset on the salt flats

: Always reminds me of a kaleidoscope

: Self portrait at sunset

: Walking on glass

: Rémy and Aurélie Parisot taking sunset photos

: Floating islands

: Here comes the rain

: At first glance, I always think this guy is going to the bathroom

: Rain

: Trying to get a photo of me in the hot tub, but it never really turned out

: Notice the conspicuous lack of an American flag.

: Rain over the islands

: Checking another angle on the sunset

: Hrm. Guess I should have paid more attention to the crop on this one…

: I decide to walk out onto the flats before the storm arrives

: Walking away from the group

: My feet were cold at this point. Just sayin’

: Playing with color settings

: Switching the DSLR to the tripod

: Waiting for lightning

: Continuing my walk out onto the flats

: Deep reds

: Passing the storm

: Coming back

: Trying not to look directly at the camera…

: Okay, trying to look at the camera this time, I guess

: Grr. Arrgh.

: This is me, running from a dinosaur

: This is me, riding a dinosaur. “What? It was too late in the day — too dark — for…

: Storm is starting to actually look threatening

: This was the scene all evening. The reflection of the storm clouds made it look like…

: Northern edge of the storm

: Bow-shock with natural color

: Both sides of the storm

: The lightning was coming so fast and flashing so long, I wondered aloud if it would b…

: It stayed so long that the bolt was still visible on the third image in the burst of …

: Guess I couldn’t decide which photo of this I liked best.

: The only other group of the flats that late

: Ooo’s and Ahhh’s after every boom of thunder

: Posing at sunset

: “I’m on the salt flats at sunset!”

: Photograph of a random photographer

: Sunset colors

: Tear in the sky

: Nature? You. Are. Awesome!

: We tried hard to get handheld lightning shots here. Couldn’t.

: Chimping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimping

: Just out for a stroll at sunset

: Huddled together against the storm

: It was almost impossible NOT to get a lightning photo

: Believe it or not, those bolts came down MILES away

: Just set the camera on a tripod and used the 2-second timer. Practically every frame …

: I got so many, I played with the crop a lot

: Sunset, lightning, and refections. So, so cool.

: Wide lightning

: Thin bolt

: If we form a band, this will go on our album cover.

: Twin bolts

: Deep blue

: Probably the most lightning caught on one shot the whole night

: Heavy rain

: Bright

: Brighter

: Time to head back; we were SO cold I’ll bet the wind chill was way below zero

: Above and below

: Color schemes

: The lightning could change the whole sky

: Maybe time to move a little quicker

: Zapped

: Clouds are squeezing out the sun

: Purple

: Brightest

: Lightning reflections

: “It’s time to go!” “Okay, just one more photo! Hold it! Hold it! Got it! Let’s roll!”

: Aftermath of the salt flats. And, of course, no hot shower at the place we stayed tha…

: No time like the present to start up a new jogging routine again!

: Never really turned out, but at least it shows my best side

: Sunset photos

: Photos at sunset Photo by Rémy Dahan

: From the first trip onto the flats

: Couldn’t-resist-framegrab from the video I’m editing

: Couldn’t-resist-framegrab from the video I’m editing

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