Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India / October 2014 –

I was determined to go for a camel ride at sunrise because we’d just missed doing one at sunset the night before. We were camping out in the desert and I had to convince Louise to join me at 5 in the early morning. It was quite cool and still dark when we ventured further into the desert on our camels.

While waiting patiently for the rising sun I decided to photograph the silhouettes of Louise and our guide. I went down further into the valley of a large sand dune. The yellow/gold glow effect seemed to work well. It eliminated all detail thereby reducing my subjects to black figurines, caught motionless in time, waiting for the sun to begin another day. It all seemed so symbolic that the sun dictates the passage of time and that each day brings hope of something new to transcend the predictable.

Ever since seeing the movie “Lawrence of Arabia”, I’ve wanted to experience the desert sand on a camel. And a sand storm? Well, they may look cool on film but not pleasant at all. Luckily when that happened we were bunkered down in the Jaisalmer Fort overlooking the city and outstretched lands.