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Desert

Jacob Bonifacio

United States

Utah

A towering rock formation casts deep shadows across an eroded, arid landscape in this dramatic black and white photograph.

Mike Olbinski

A storm of lightning and thunder is brewing on the horizon.

Daniel Inskeep

A man standing on a desert dune with a cardboard box on his head

Daniel Johnson

White Sands

New Mexico

A person stands alone in a desert under a cloudy sky

Jeremy Bishop

Oljato-Monument Valley

Arizona

A breathtaking aerial panorama captures the sun-kissed rock formations of the Arizona desert, bathed in the warm hues of dusk.

Megan Rogers

Washington

Dog playing on the sandy beach near the ocean at sunset

Bret Curry

Dry lake bed with cracked mud texture

Roger Sieber

A desert with ripples on the sand and sand dunes in the distance.

Flip Twogood

Green River

A full moon rises over a towering butte at dusk, viewed from across a river and through a frame of silhouetted trees.

Natalie Carrasco

A view of towering buttes in the distance from a rocky, red hillside under a hazy sky.

Francesca Poncetta

Echinocactus among rock formations and mountains

Alex Broadstock

A desert landscape with sand and rocky mountains

Daniel Undesser

Greece

A large cactus in a desert partially lit up sunlight

A view of some sand out in the desert

Ben Lalande

A barren desert landscape with a rocky cliff and mountainous terrain

Taylor Werfelmann

Three buttes in the middle of the desert.

Simon Ribadeneira

Person is walking in a desert landscape with striated rock formations under a clear blue sky.

Lars Borges

Glamis

California

An off-road vehicle performs a wheelie on a sand dune at sunset, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Kyle Niego

Huge mesas in a wide desert with mountains sky natural landscape and clouds

Chris Schmid

Namibia

An aerial view shows a safari truck driving on a dirt road through a vast desert landscape of rolling sand dunes at sunrise.

Jana Early

Gold Canyon

A stark black and white landscape features a lone saguaro cactus standing before a rugged, sunlit mountain range in a vast desert.

Robert Palmer

Aerial view of a vast and arid landscape unfolds, punctuated by meandering rivers, rugged canyons, and a shimmering turquoise reservoir nestled amidst the arid terrain.

Cydney Holm

Rocky terrain on hillside during the day

GS & Co

A desert with short sand dunes seen from the air

Wyatt Clough

Aerial of mountains in a large desert area.

Lightning bolts emerge from storm clouds over the desert as rain pours down

Mickael Samama

A barren desert landscape with a brown sandy terrain and a clear sky

Lily Glass

A smiling child wearing a colorful tie-dye shirt and striped hat stands in a sunny, arid shrubland under a blue sky.

Jeremi Durand

Réunion

The bright three-quarter moon is visible in a clear blue sky over a vast and barren desert landscape.

Alamosa

Colorado

A woman in summer clothes walking across desert dunes.

Multiple brilliant bolts of lightning strike down on a desert landscape during a powerful thunderstorm at night.

Anne Holiday

Some grass growing out of sand in the desert.

Bekah Wriedt

Joshua Tree

A woman in denim and a black, wide-brimmed hat posing in the desert.

Nikolay

A dreamlike and surreal landscape features a solitary figure sitting between two blurred trees under a vast, moody sky.

Katelyn Perry

Morocco

A faint rainbow arches through a dramatic, cloudy sky over the sunlit, golden hills of a vast desert landscape.

Michael Matti

A vast landscape of weathered, rounded boulders stretches towards a backdrop of snow-capped mountains.

Of Two Lands

Iceland

Dark and brown horses in a semiarid desert with mountains in the background

Hanksville

A lone person in a yellow jacket stands on a sunlit ridge, surveying a vast landscape of eroded desert badlands under a blue sky.

Luke Stackpoole

A vast desert landscape unfolds in shades of earthy brown

Korbinian Grad

Wind marks on dunes in the desert

Nolis Anderson

Luxury farm resort in the desert with large white tents at heenat salma farm

A sunset over a desert meeting the ocean creating a contrast between two worlds

A sandy desert dune under a cloudy sky

Man sitting at a table in front of a window typing on a laptop computer

A powerful bolt of lightning strikes the ground from a dark, ominous cloud during a dramatic thunderstorm over a flat landscape.

Henry Han

New Zealand

Waikato Region

A view of some sand dunes with lines in them

A group of dromedary camels with saddles rest on the sandy ground of the desert during a golden sunset.

Wyoming

A cowboy wearing a hat rides a horse in a dusty corral, practicing with a rope in a desert landscape captured in monochrome.

Brad Booth

Large mountains loom over desert dunes and a flat earthy plain

Parker Thornton

Red rock formations stand high on the desert canyons under a clear sky

Zach Deloach

Nevada

A woman in a dark suit stands alone on a vast sand dune under a bright sun in this monochrome photograph.

Monica Baddar

Egypt

Giza Governorate

A profile view of the Great Sphinx of Giza is shown on a sunny day with a clear sky, with a few tourists visible in the background and a sandy desert landscape.

Joey Kantor

A person wearing a hat hikes across a rocky, desert landscape with a snow-capped mountain range in the distance.

Zachary Hertzman

Plants and vegetation along the side of an open road through the desert with mountains in the distance

Philippe Degroote

Llucmajor

Spain

Balearic Islands

A top-down view of dry, cracked soil during a drought, with a few small green plants sprouting from the ground.

Mike Kipper

A tranquil desert landscape at dusk features silhouetted Joshua trees and distant mountains under a gradient sky.

Rebecca Stumpf

A smiling woman enjoys the wind in her hair while looking out the open window of a train at the passing scenic landscape.

Bernarda Nibera

A vibrant rainbow arches across the sky over a desolate and beautiful desert mountain landscape.

Sinziana Velicescu

Bishop

A dappled gray horse walks through a vast, arid landscape filled with dry grasses and reddish brush.

Catherine Marois

A tall Joshua trees stand in a sandy desert with large boulders and dry shrubs under a partly cloudy sky.

Traffic cones on a dry desert plain

Several sand dunes in a desert region and in the background there is a mountain range

Lauren Withrow

Abandoned wooden fence with barb wire next to the desert

Alison Scarpulla

A cactus shaped like arrows pointing in two opposite directions.

Justin Krompier

A serene beach scene at sunset with ocean waves gently breaking on the shore.

a biker wearing a white helmet, black jacket, and pants speeding up with a motorcycle in the desert.

Zachariah Hagy

A low-angle close-up of a cholla cactus showing its green spiny branches and yellow flowers against a bright sky.

Antelope standing on sand dunes in the desert looking at the camera

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