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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!
- Workers on the Salar
- Salar de Uyuni
- Tire tracks on the way to the Salt Hotel
- Fun with perspective
- In the palm of her hand
- From the first trip onto the flats
- Caravan to the Salt Hotel
- Hot Wheels
- I like this one more. I think the expression matches up better.
- Dusty and Wendy http://roamthepla.net
- Surprised this worked out so well, considering we only tried staging it once.
- Pringles Technique If do right, no can defend.
- Exploring the Salar
- Salar de Uyuni, photo ops
- 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
- Driving back to Uyuni
- Counting down the time to our hotel beds
- Salt pyramids
- Gearing up for our second Uyuni tour
- Uyuni Train Graveyard
- Textures
- Uyuni Train Graveyard
- Shut yer train hole!
- Look out below
- Monkeying around
- E=mc^2
- Or is it, "ON," upside down?
- Train Graveyard
- Uyuni Train Graveyard
- At the train graveyard
- Getting some perspective
- Bags of salt
- Salt house, truck
- Cute and cuddly
- Ride the llama!
- Salt bricks
- Posh Salt Hotel, Cristal Samaña
- Oksana relaxing in Cristal Samaña
- In a really posh hotel made of salt
- Walking to the flats after lunch, "for digestion."
- Our Porteño friends on their way to the Salar
- Making way for the SUVs
- Salt hut by the side of the road
- The beginnings of the salt flats, not yet wet
- Kind of looks like snow
- Looking out toward the flats
- Driving out onto the flats in the rainy season
- Jeep on the horizon
- Coming back from the salt hotel, salt mounds
- Desolate hiker
- View from the down low
- Getting briefed
- Closeup on the ground
- No time like the present to start up a new jogging routine again!
- 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
- Kid of falls apart when you look at it another way
- Pull my finger
- Honestly, even without the perspective trickery, my neck just doesn’t look right.
- Our relationship in a nutshell.
- Spelling out OHIO for Dusty and Wendy
- 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
- Probably shooting some video or another
- Driving on to the salt hotel
- 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
- Salt pyramid plucked from the ground
- Shimmering Flats
- 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
- Never really turned out, but at least it shows my best side
- Feet and flags
- Viva Argentina
- Oh no, they noticed us!
- Joachim decided that since we couldn’t spell out Argentina earlier, that they’d get t…
- This is how the sunset began
- The wind picked up a little, rippling the reflections out of existence.
- Oksana in the "hot" tub.
- Trying to get a photo of me in the hot tub, but it never really turned out
- Oh noes!
- This is me, running from a dinosaur
- Shoot it! Shooooot it!
- Grr. Arrgh.
- This is me, riding a dinosaur. "What? It was too late in the day — too dark -…
- Notice the conspicuous lack of an American flag.
- "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
- Rain over the islands
- Checking another angle on the sunset
- 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
- Hrm. Guess I should have paid more attention to the crop on this one…
- Deep reds
- Continuing my walk out onto the flats
- Passing the storm
- Coming back
- Trying not to look directly at the camera…
- Okay, trying to look at the camera this time, I guess
- 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
- Guess I couldn’t decide which photo of this I liked best.
- Photos at sunset Photo by Rémy Dahan
- Sunset photos
- 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!"
- Nature? You. Are. Awesome!
- We tried hard to get handheld lightning shots here. Couldn’t.
- Just out for a stroll at sunset
- Photograph of a random photographer
- Sunset colors
- Tear in the sky
- Chimping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimping
- Huddled together against the storm
- Switching the DSLR to the tripod
- Waiting for lightning
- 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 …
- 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
- Brightest
- 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
- Lightning reflections
- Couldn’t-resist-framegrab from the video I’m editing
- Couldn’t-resist-framegrab from the video I’m editing
- "It’s time to go!" "Okay, just one more photo! Hold it! Hold it! Got i…
- Aftermath of the salt flats. And, of course, no hot shower at the place we stayed tha…
- Our outstanding-in-every-way Uyuni tour group!
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