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Desert

Dylan Moron

Namibia

A woman in a floral dress stands on a large rock, touching an overhanging rock formation while admiring the golden sunset over an arid landscape.

Aslin Castañeda

Morocco

The desert landscape has sparse vegetation and hilly terrain.

Hans Isaacson

The view from a car window driving down a desert highway towards the mountains during a hazy, golden sunset.

Lindsey Kusterman

Salton Sea Beach

United States

California

A solitary palm tree with a tall trunk covered in dried fronds and a small crown of green leaves stands in a barren, sandy landscape under a partly cloudy blue sky

Flip Twogood

Lake Powell

Arizona

A male hiker with a large backpack pauses on a rocky outcrop to admire the stunning view of a winding lake through golden sandstone canyons.

Joseph Jimenez

A dirt road winds through desert scrub toward snowy mountains.

Mickael Samama

A dusty desert with sand dunes and obscured sunlight

Simon Ribadeneira

Merzouga

Drâa-Tafilalet

Sand dunes appear in a desert on a cloudy day.

Daniel Johnson

A man in a crouch start position on a large rock in a desert

Arnaud Moro

Desert road with hills and blue sky in the background

Katelyn Perry

A vast, arid landscape of rolling brown hills with sunlit mountains and a faint rainbow on the horizon.

Nick Brown

An arid landscape with colorful mountains and rocks in the foreground.

Johno Faherty

The Colorado River carves a dramatic horseshoe-shaped path through the red rock canyon landscape at sunrise.

Anisha Sisodia

Joshua Tree

A classic white car with blue racing stripes is parked next to a vintage 'Mojave Flea' clock post in a sunny desert town.

Dry ground at the base of desert hills

Alexandrena Parker

Three people sitting together on top of a van, posing for a photo, in the desert.

Andreas Andersson

Portugal

Faro District

Jagged red rock formations stand sharply defined against a stark, cloudless blue sky.

Brad Booth

A lone mountain biker rides along the edge of a rocky cliff in a vast desert landscape with a large butte in the background.

Marshal Chupa

A person sitting on a sandy plain in a desert landscape

Elia Pellegrini

Italy

Woman standing in the desert wearing a blue robe with head covering

Ben Lalande

Mountains in a desert with a blue sky

Patrick Graf

Spain

Canary Islands

An aerial view captures the vast expanse of dry, eroded mountains and deep valleys stretching towards the ocean on the horizon.

Sardinia

Barren and jagged rocks stretch endlessly across the desolate desert landscape

Zach Larraz

A low-angle view captures the spiky, fibrous trunk and green foliage of a Joshua tree against a clear, deep blue sky.

Rolling sand dunes under an open sky in a desert landscape

Justin Krompier

A woman rides a horse on white sand desert at sunset.

Mike Olbinski

Dark storm clouds pour rain over the desert and lightning illuminates the night sky over mountains

GS & Co

A woman poses on a dune buggy in the desert

Mountains in the desert casting shadows on the lower peaks.

Aerial view of a black and white desert

Lars Borges

Ein Gedi

Israel

South District

A young boy in red shorts walks barefoot through a vast desert landscape towards a trilingual 'Go in Peace' sign with mountains in the background.

Juliane Eirich

Tucson

A vast desert landscape filled with towering saguaro cacti and various shrubs with a rugged mountain range in the background.

Jeet Khagram

Sossusvlei

Hardap Region

People standing on a dune overlooking desert trees and vegetation

Sean Scheidt

A tent, camping gear, chairs and a telescope in the desert on a sunny day.

A lone person hikes through a surreal landscape of swirling, colorful sandstone rock formations in a desert canyon.

Sunset over red rock plateaus and canyons of grand canyon national park

Leandro Crespi

An aerial view from an airplane window shows the aircraft's wing soaring over a vast, pink-hued landscape under a deep blue sky.

Roger Sieber

Person rides brown horse in the desert

Sand dunes with ripple marks in a dry desert with sunlight shining down

Anthony Smith

Hawaii

A full moon hangs in the vibrant teal sky over a barren, rocky mountain landscape with a distant structure.

Pacific Grove

A mountain landscape at dusk with a house and trees

A desert landscape with mountains and a highway

Megan Rogers

Golden light touches red rock cliffs under a cloudy sky by a calm lake.

Dani Guindo

Iceland

A lone white SUV stands in a vast, dark landscape against a massive, swirling orange dust storm.

Four adults walk through a desert valley at sunset.

Jeremy Bishop

Landscape of sand dunes with mountains in the background against a cloudless blue sky

Aerial top view of contrasting browns in a barren desert landscape at dusk

Jaime Del Pizzo

Saguaro cacti cover a rocky desert hillside under a partly cloudy blue sky, with mountains in the background.

Chris Schmid

An aerial perspective captures the mysterious fairy circles and undulating sand dunes of the Namibian desert.

Vast desert landscape under a dramatic sky, with sunbeams illuminating the dunes and a lonely road stretching into the mountains in the background.

omar belattar

A crack in the dirt in the desert

Jade Stephens

Patches of grass and trees on desert sand.

Omar Eltahan

Egypt

Faiyum Governorate

Three people riding on horses up to a lake

White Sands

New Mexico

Woman in yellow dress waving yellow flag on white sand beach in new mexico

Inés Urdaci

Bardenas

Aragon

A weathered shack with a tall chimney stands isolated in a stark, rural landscape in this black and white photograph.

Diego Contreras

A woman with a suitcase leans against a tall Joshua tree in a vast desert landscape with mountains in the background.

Death Valley Junction

A shirtless man wearing a hat and holding a shovel on his shoulder stands in a barren, rocky landscape.

Jana Redweik

Palm Springs

A lush oasis of California fan palms thrives in a desert canyon at the base of a sunlit, scrub-covered mountain.

rocks in a desert area on a sunny day

A lone person stands atop a unique white and red rock formation, overlooking the vast wilderness of a desert landscape.

Lightning storm illuminates desert wasteland as cars dodge bolts in distance motion from car lights illuminates dark road

Pelle Lannefors

Dubai

United Arab Emirates

Vast and rolling orange sand dunes form a serene desert landscape under an overcast sky.

A rocky desert with small brown shrubs.

Blythe Thomas

A tattered chair is turned upside down in arid terrain in joshua tree

A view through a stone archway frames two people walking down a dusty road in an ancient village, with rugged mountains rising in the background.

Jon Way

A mountainous landscape with a utility pole in the foreground

Joshua Trees grow in the semi arid scrub land near hills on a cloudy day.

Caterina Nasini

A large prickly pear cactus bush with ripe red fruit growing on its pads, with many fallen fruits scattered on the dirt ground below.

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