Sand gets into everything and you can't focus. I've been on the dunes when the wind is so bad that I had to can the project after fifteen minutes out. A friend of mine, Karl, is also a photographer and was with me during this trip. He couldn't believe that he didn't see what I did, although it wasn't until I got home to the darkroom that I realized what kind of a image I had. Even though we were standing right next to one another, Karl's focus was elsewhere.
Every photographer has a different vision and sees things differently.
There have been times when the reverse has happened as well, and I've come home wondering why I didn't see that. I n this photo, the line of the dune makes the viewer's eye follow the curve into the distance to the snow covered peaks. For a dune to maintain so many curvatures over a long distance and not be broken up is what makes this image so unique. I would like to think that I had more to do with the composition of this shot than I actually had. I have seen hundreds of pictures of sand dunes, my own as well as those of others, yet this one seems so unique.