Wednesday, July 7

George Steinmetz revealing the mysteries of the desert

These are two of George Steinmetz masterpieces and if you want to see more go to his site. There you will also find a text he wrote about his work. This is the beginning:
"I became captivated by Arabia's Empty Quarter as a young man when I read Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands. The Empty Quarter is larger than France without a single permanent point of water or human habitation. It's both the world's largest sand sea and one of the hottest places on earth, and has only been traversed a handful of times. I didn't want to repeat Thesiger's epic journeys many decades later, but when I discovered motorized paragliding I found a way to visualize this remote landscape in a new way. ..."
(read more here)