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41 images Created 7 Sep 2012

Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

They appear gradually as you approach. First, an amorphous khaki blob hugging the base of the Sangre de Cristos. Then, a tan curtain that has fallen off the rod and rumpled onto the floor. And then, about four miles south of them, they come into focus: massive, improbable, creamy peaks of sand slapped against 14,000-foot peaks.

These are the Great Sand Dunes, and photographing their ever-changing forms at sundown is an intoxicating experience.

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  • The Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve -- located in the San Luis Valley of Colorado -- with the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the distance, including Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle (both exceed 14,000 feet).
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  • Foot prints follow a sand dune ridge, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado.
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  • Foot prints cross a sand dune in the dune field of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado.
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  • Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains can be seen in the distance. Much of the park's interior has been designated as a federal wilderness area.
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  • The Great Sand Dunes at sunset with the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the distance. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado
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  • Two boys walk into the Great Sand Dunes with their snowboards. The wilderness area that covers the dunefield is popular for skiers and snowboarders. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado.
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  • Dune grass and shadows create an interesting scene, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado.
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  • A girl walks by two boys wading in Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado.
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  • Light and shadow cast one a solitary sand dune, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado.
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  • Foot steps climb one of the tallest dunes inside the dune field of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado.
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  • Grass meadow and footprints upon sand dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado. Much of the park's interior has been designated as a federal wilderness area.
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  • Sunset over Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve with the 14,000-foot peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the distance, including Crestone Peak, Crestone Needle and Kit Carson Peak.
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  • Grass meadow and footprints upon sand dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado. Much of the park's interior has been designated as a federal wilderness area.
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  • A country lane leads to a ranch in the San Luis Valley, with the snowcapped Sangre de Cristo Mountains rising in the distance. Near Villa Grove, Colorado.
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  • A wind storm blows sand over the ridges of the dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado.
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  • A girl plays in the mud of Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado.
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  • Medano Creek comes to an untimely end at the base of the dune field, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. Full size image available upon request.
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  • Foot steps climb the dunes of Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. Full color image also available upon request,
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  • A couple rests on the edge of a sand depression that has naturally formed in the dune field of Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Sand blows through the air over the dunes of Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • View across the dune field to Mount Cleveland, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • People are dwarfed by the towering dunes of the dune field, at Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Foot prints in the sand along the ridge of a dune, with Mount Cleveland in the distance. Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
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  • Foot steps cross the dune field of Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Foot tracks cross the dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Hikers climb the Great Sand Dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. Full color image also available upon request.
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  • Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. Full color image available upon request.
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  • Tracks crossing the dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Dune grass and shadow and footprints, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Panorama of the dune field with Mount Cleveland in the distance, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • The wavy sand of the dune field tapers off into Medano Creek Basin, with the Sangre de Cristo Mountains rising in the distance, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Panorama of the dune field looking south at the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Footsteps seem to wander aimlessly lost in the sand, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Foot prints follow the ridge lines of the dune field, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Hikers descend the dunes back to national park headquarters with the dried basin of Medano Creek in the distance, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Footsteps climbing the dunes in evening, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Wide angle of Great Sand Dunes National Park and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains with virga from a thunderstorm rising into the evening sky, San Luis Valley, Colorado.
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  • Hikers are dwarfed by the size of the Great Sand Dunes as they hike out of the dune field, with wind blowing sand across the shadows, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Landscape image of Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Mount Cleveland rises over the dune field of Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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  • Foot prints cross the ridge tops of the dunes, with Mount Cleveland in the distance, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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