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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Fifty Nine: Using dramatic light at the fringes of the day > Coming home, Douz, Tunisia, 2008
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13-NOV-2008

Coming home, Douz, Tunisia, 2008

Shooting from the driver’s seat of a horse-drawn carriage, I followed our tour group returning from a Sahara Desert camel ride. As my carriage passed them, two of them waved to me – their silhouettes frozen in timeless salute against the glare of the setting desert sun. From my vantage point, I was able to abstract the camels by merging them into the dark sand below the horizon, while stressing the waving riders outlined against a darkening sky. An image such as this can only be made in the waning moments of a day. The camel excursion has originally been scheduled for earlier in the day, but heavy crowds forced our guide to move it to late afternoon, enabling me to make an image I otherwise never could have made.

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Phil Douglis30-Nov-2008 23:39
The setting sun serves three purposes here. It helps me abstract all of you and your camels through backlighting, it serves as a symbol for the end of the day, and as you say, its shape echoes the rounded curves of yours and Jill's arms, thus tying the image together. Thanks, as always, for pointing this out, Tim.
Tim May30-Nov-2008 20:43
I like how our arms echo the curve of the sun.
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