Image Description
I took this photo in 1976 while hiking in Great Sand Dunes
National Monument in south-central Colorado. The tree trunk was
rapidly being buried by encroaching sand dunes, and blowing sand had weathered
away the softest wood, leaving only a ghostly skeleton of the harder knotholes
connected by a few strips of wood.
I did not have a tripod and just snapped the photo on the
fly, without much thought about lighting or composition. Nevertheless,
it remains to this day (an estimated 20,000 photos later) one of my favorites.
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