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16-APR-2011 Michael Kilpatrick

The Yellow Sand of Lake Mungo

This was taken at Lake Mungo National Park where some friends and I spent the weekend.
It's an 8 hour drive from Melbourne, where we live, and is interesting for at least two reasons.
The first is the amazing erosion structures and the second is that some very significant remains of early humans were found there.
It is the site of an ancient lake that dried up several thousand years ago.

Canon EOS 7D ,Tokina AT-X 116 Pro DX
1/50s f/10.0 at 11.0mm iso200 full exif

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alexeig25-Apr-2011 20:17
Great wide, beautiful light. I like foreground details
Canon Image Challenge23-Apr-2011 17:27
Beautiful! ~Melanie
Michael Kilpatrick21-Apr-2011 08:06
Thanks Paul. No, we stayed at a farm about 30 km from the park. That was interesting in itself. It's Autumn here in Australia and the weather was perfect - around 25 deg C each day. We don't really have any dangerous land animals here except for the odd hoop snake and/or drop bear........ Regards, Michael
Canon Image Challenge20-Apr-2011 13:20
Did you camp out there on the range? That would be an awesome camping trip if you were able to spend the weekend there. Unless there are some mighty nasty creatures of the night lurking about or it gets to 43C by day a 0 C by night. Paul
Michael Kilpatrick20-Apr-2011 06:38
Thanks for the comments everyone. Regards, Michael
GeraldH19-Apr-2011 19:32
Michael, I suppose this would be perfect for a magazine like National Geographic. The image looks almost three-dimensionally thanks to the low elevation of the sun, colors are fine and composition is convincing. -Gerald
Jim B (MSP)19-Apr-2011 16:37
Nicely composed and captured. The lighting is perfect here. It looks like a fun place to visit - I can see lots of different structures in the background.
Jim
Canon Image Challenge19-Apr-2011 16:35
beautiful lighting and comp. the lone cloud is iin the right place, too. thanks for showing a very interesting place in australia! shu
Canon Image Challenge19-Apr-2011 12:02
Very impressive! And I know my travel photography and so am able to say this...the lonely cloud is also the perfect touch. Traveller