Blog and Portfolio by Crystal Stafford
Sounds like the title of some really profound Sufi poem, but it’s not. It’s just the only thing my tired mind could think of. I am officially caught up on my blog now. I am still in the race and heading for the half-way mark and then on to the finish line. And with this last photo of a beautiful oryx and sun painted dunes, I bid you goodnight. Magic 178/365, The Oryx…
This goal of mine, to post a photo a day for a year, is kind of like running a marathon. I have never actually run a…
I had been doing really well keeping up with my blog while raising a newborn and I felt like I had a really good rhythm going.…
I am spending the next few days working through the photos of the dunes in Namib-Naukluft park. I LOVED photographing in this park. The stark contrast…
This is a picture I took from the bottom of Sossusvlei’s most infamous dune, Dune 54. This is the dune that everyone talks about hiking to…
This is a photo I snapped from the parking lot where we waited for the shuttle that took us the last sandy leg of the journey…
In honor of the spring equinox (autumn in the southern hemisphere) here is a photo of the magnificent sunrise just after entering Namib Naukluft Park, on our…
Ok, this is the last photo of my seven-part series of favorites from my photo essay, The Namib Desert from Above. Of course, for the grand…
Photo number five of my seven-part series is one of several photos that I took during my scenic flight across the Namib that remind me more…
This picture was taken during an aerial photography tour that I took from Swakopmund across the Namib Desert to Sossusvlei. The flight was two and half…