Forrest Brown

On our last day in the Sossusvlei area we had the opportunity to go hot air ballooning. It was an amazing experience to be able to see the dunes and surrounding landscape from the air.

Hot Air Balloon Ride Over Namibia

We spend three full days photographing around the Sossusvlei area which is a section of the Namib Naukluft Natioanl Park.

The Sand Dunes in Sossusvlei

No Moon and no nearby cities made for some great star photography.

Starry Night Sky

Our first day in the in the Sossusvlei area started with a dawn hike into Deadvlei, which is an amazing dry white clay pan surrounded by high sand dunes. Dead camel thorn trees are scattered across the clay pan.

Deadvlei

Another long day of driving to get to our next destination. A gas stop in the small town of Aus gave us a chance to photograph some of the local children.

Kids in the town of Aus

Kids in the town of Aus

Kids in the town of Aus

And we were starting to see more wildlife.

Oryx

Zebra

Day four of our tour of Namibia we spent from sunrise to sunset at the amazing ghost town of Kolmanskop near the port town of Luderitz. Kolmanskop was a once booming diamond mining town, but the town was abandoned in 1954 after the diamonds in the area were exhausted and is now slowly being consumed my the surrounding sand dunes.

The Ghost Town of Kolmanskop

The Ghost Town of Kolmanskop

The Ghost Town of Kolmanskop

Namibia is a big, mostly empty desert, so we had some long drives in-between some our stops.

Long Stretches of Empty Road

Photographers Stop To play In The Traffic

After a long drive, the first stop of our trip was a Quiver Tree Forest near the town of Keetmanshoop Namibia. We we spend several hours at sunset here and then went out again to get the sunrise the next morning.

Sunrise at the Quiver Tree Forest