Slow Lens
Film · Namib Desert, Namibia

Dark to Dark

A single day in the Namib, from the first light on Dune 45 to the white clay and black trees of Deadvlei, then out to the coast and the granite of Spitzkoppe. Slow frames for a place where nothing moves except the sand.

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Duration
1:24
Format
MP4 · H.264 · 1920 × 1080 · 30 fps
File
69.2 MB
Sound
None
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
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namib-dark-to-dark-1080p.mp4

Photographs used in this film

  1. A track winding through bare hills in the Namib-Naukluft — Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  2. Quiver trees on a stony plain, Namib-Naukluft — Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  3. Dune 45 at sunrise, half in shadow — Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  4. Walkers on the crest of Dune 45 — Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  5. Wind-shaped ridges and shadows in the Sossusvlei dunes — Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  6. Footprints along a dune crest above a white clay pan, Sossusvlei — Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  7. Big Mama dune at Sossusvlei — Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  8. Dead trees scattered across Deadvlei, seen from the dune — Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  9. A dead camel thorn and its shadow on the white clay of Deadvlei — Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  10. Morning at Deadvlei, the moon above the dune — Photo: Daniel Kraft · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
  11. Cracked clay and a twisted stump at Deadvlei — Photo: Daniel Kraft · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
  12. Flamingos in the Walvis Bay lagoon below the dunes — Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  13. The granite peaks of Spitzkoppe rising from the plain — Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  14. A butter tree among dark boulders at Spitzkoppe — Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

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