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Published: 2005-12-18 05:46:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 2642; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 119
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In the deserts of Northern Mexico you can find large open deserts that once were the floor of the ocean. Through centuries of 120 degree heat the earth had baked and cracked.FULL VIEW IS A MUST.
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No one has checked the subsurface for rare Earth minerals?
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Probably not. I know that they tap steam out of the ground near there.
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esta es la carretera del desierto cerca de mexicali?
que hermoso encontrar una foto tan increible como esta!
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Si, es la verdad. Es la carretera del desierto al sur de Mexicali, hasta San Felipe. Gracias!
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The cracks make it look like a jig-saw puzzle, love those things, I do like the Black and White it does look good, but i wish i could see some of the rich colors of the dirt as well. ya know? Or even the different watered down colors of the heat waves? i'm not sure what to call them.
But yes the B&W do give it a nice touch...i would like maybe to see some of your others with color?
Good work.
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Thanks for leaving your nice comments.
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It's amazing how these can stretch for miles. I don't want to be lost in the middle of that with no water!
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.no word.
well this kindof reminds me of Saudi Arabia. Sure gonna miss it
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I would love to visit that region some day.
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..and me to Mexico and US
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I would be glad to be your tour guide.
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interesting landscape that would be hard to walk safely on
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Especial with all of the critters that hide in the cracks, and the fact that these days that part of northern Mexico is over run with drug and human traffickers.
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that sounds really really scarey, makes me wanna pull the blankets up over my head and pretend it isn't there.
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i came for a visit, saw this, and somehow its already in my faves....DA must be psychic tonite...
Or I simply forgot, and what a horror to forget such a photo!
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LOL. It is nicer to be faved twice! I took that all the way back in 1987.
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I have always found these areas of parched oceans to be fascinating. Really well contructed shot.
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Thank you very much, and thanks for the fave.
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it's a beautiful shot
i wonder how did it look in color
anways love itttt
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Thank you so much for your comment. I am glad that you liked it. The desert is a sand/brown colour.
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but the contrast with the bluee sky must be spectacular!!
you're welcome
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i love the crakced floor.
I love textures like this, any sort of cracks but especially in the earth.
And to capture so well in black and white..
itw wickid
K
x x x
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Thanks for the comment. Anytime you would like to take a walk in the burning desert, let me know!
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Very impressive indeed!
A good scene to make some nice shots!
I like this one.
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Thank you very much for your nice comment. I shot this one in i988--before I ever got serious about photography. We were on our way down to San Fekioe for the weekend.
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very nice. the b&w flattern it a lot. I like how his back is bare, exposured to the sun. However, could be better if you didn't include the sky. It would make the cracked ground seem endless and give a better effect
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Perhaps if I had more of an elevated angle and less sky it would create that affect. I think all I was thinking about at the time was how vunerable and desolated a human being could be alone and waterless in a desert like this.
Corda Serrata Pando,
Chief MacPolk
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of course, and you brought it very well in the photo.. but the more you photograph, things like what I said will come automatically
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I don kno why I really luv deserts..
Great shot 
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Thank you for your compliments, but I really like the message of yours with the boat on dry land, too. I forsee you doing many wonderful and powerful photographs as you learn in the future.
Chief MacPolk
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That is soooo sweet of u
Thank you very much.I really feel proud that I know you at this great site.
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Excellent.......wow. Surreal, nice tones. No critique here. Very nice work.
Did you shoot this with film? What kind of camera?
Would you mind telling me the details please? I am very curious.
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Location: Sonoran Desert of Baja del Norte, Mexico.
Date: July 03, 1988
Time: 10:00 A.M.
Direction: Facing West
Camera: Nikon (Digital had not been invented yet.)
Film: Kodak B/W
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This is a perfect moment captured in time. Awesome shot. Favorite.
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Thank you so much. You would have had fun being there.
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Wow, this is quite amazing. I'd like to know what it's like hopping across those gaps, and how deep they go? I'll be sure to travel to Mexico to check these out; I'm quite intrigued by natural phenomena such as this (well, we scientists have a tendency to be like that, haha).
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P.S.
It can get tiring jumping from one to another. They are 6'' to 18' deep, and harbor rattlesnakes, scorpions, gila monsters, and tarantulas.
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If you ever do come to this area, you will need a guide and an interpreter. Look me up. They know me in all the cantinas, and my picture is in all of las estaciones de policia.
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Gracis par sus palabras sobre la photo. Que le vaya bien.
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They range fro six inches to eighteen inches deep.
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Impressive! Especially how the man in the foreground gives a sense of size and perspective. The B&W works really well here. Like the sun even leeched out the colors...
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Thanks. I really had fun with this shoot. I must have shot five rolls. I just kept making him walk from one point to another, because there were so many western looking places, like out of the movies.
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