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Desert

GS & Co

Cracked soil in a driedup river bed with little moisture

Omar Eltahan

Egypt

Faiyum Governorate

A silhouetted man walks through a vast orange desert with other figures visible on the distant horizon under a cloudy sky.

Luke Stackpoole

Aerial shot of desert land with huge rock formations

Delaney Allen

A sandstorm blows above the desert with mountains in the distance under clear skies

Sinziana Velicescu

Oljato-Monument Valley

United States

Arizona

An old, gold sedan is parked on red desert soil next to a pink stucco house and a rustic zigzag log fence.

Pelle Lannefors

United Arab Emirates

A model in a black coat standing in the desert.

Kelsea Callister

Utah

A warm, golden sunset casts a hazy glow over a vast desert landscape with mountains silhouetted on the horizon.

Mickael Samama

Cracked dry ground in front of a sand dune

A vibrant red and orange sky from a dramatic sunset or sunrise glows over a large body of water and distant rock formations.

Bret Curry

Woman wearing a poncho and hat standing in a desert before mountains at sunset

Jon Way

An abandoned service station in the desert in southwestern utah

Two wild mustangs traverse a red-earthed prairie under a vast and moody sky with gathering storm clouds.

Brad Booth

Red rock buttes and rock formations in the desert

A man rides his mountain bike through a dry desert landscape with buttes in the background during a golden sunset.

Chandler Borries

Namibia

An ostrich running fast through a desert on a sunny day.

Evan Lanier

O Mont Saint-Michel in France, with its historic abbey and surrounding structures reflected in the wet sand at low tide, creating a mirror effect.

Silhouettes of people walking across a dark landscape under a vibrant purple and pink sky at sunset.

Sand being thrown up in the air in a desert at the foot of rocky mountains

A surreal landscape of a crimson red field beneath a dramatic, fiery orange sky with dark storm clouds looming over distant hazy mountains.

Sean Scheidt

A woman wearing sunglasses, a head covering, and a cropped jacket with fur trim poses against sunlit rocks during the golden hour.

Alex Broadstock

Fractal patterns in rock formations near a mountain in the evening

Andreas Andersson

Portugal

Faro District

Small yellow wildflowers cast distinct shadows on the dry, cracked orange soil.

Sam Nuttmann

Desert mountains under mostly cloudy skies.

Jake Wangner

Sandy dunes against a pink and orange background in the outdoors

Mandy Sham

Two people standing in a region with sand dunes and some green vegetation and in the background of the building of a large city

A tall cactus plant with several branches stands near another tall, branchless cactus on a sunny day.

Juliane Eirich

Tucson

An extreme close-up reveals the sharp, white spines growing from the green, textured surface of a prickly pear cactus.

Wyatt Clough

Joshua Tree

California

A lone Joshua tree is silhouetted against the warm, glowing hues of a desert sunset over layered mountains.

Nikita Safonov

Massive, smooth boulders rest among the arid vegetation of a tranquil desert landscape in Joshua Tree National Park.

Emma Kulkarni

in the dry desert on a sunny day a person walks on the sand alone

Megan Rogers

Mountain plateaus stretch across the desert under a clear sky

Potosi

Bolivia

Potosi Department

Three llamas grazing among tufts of dry grass, with a serene mountain and a colorful sky in the background.

Brian Christopher

Los Angeles

A man with braided hair and tattoos on his chest poses in a colorful fringed leather jacket against a clear blue sky.

The sun sets or rises behind distant mountains, casting a warm golden glow over the silhouetted desert landscape and dry vegetation in the foreground.

Dramatic orange clouds from a passing storm hang low in the blue sky over an arid shrubland with red soil.

A rugged mountain range in the desert is brilliantly lit by the fiery orange and red colors of a dramatic sunrise.

Jakob Wandel

Desert landscape with rolling sand dunes and mountain range in the background.

Stephanie Alcaino

Wadi Musa

Jordan

Ma'an Governorate

Two people ride a donkey past magnificent ancient tombs carved into the red rock cliffs of a historic desert site.

Lauren Withrow

Woman wearing a short black dress crosses a desert road

Sarah McColgan

Surreal blue sand dunes undulate under a vibrant gradient sky of green, yellow, and red.

Marcus Sies

Several blooming cacti in a desert.

Gianluigi Palomba

Botswana

A delicious brunch spread is laid out on colorful rugs inside a large tent overlooking a vast, sun-drenched landscape.

Felipe Neves

Mount Isa

Australia

Queensland

a desert looks very red in the darkness

Johno Faherty

The desert at night, with hills under a green sky.

Mike Olbinski

Nīnole

Hawaii

Rain falls around a rainbow in the desert lit by the sun through a dark sky

Matt Robson

White Sands

New Mexico

Woman standing in a white sand desert as the moon rises in the distance

Lars Borges

Glamis

An off-road vehicle kicks up a massive cloud of sand while racing across the dunes under a golden sky.

Tobiah Lui

Kayseri

Türkiye

A group of tourists ride camels through a vast, arid landscape at dawn, with a full moon and a hot air balloon visible in the pastel sky.

LeChee

A woman wearing a long dress and a hat is looking up while in a narrow red rock canyon.

Kyle Gilbert

Wild horses grazing on desert brush with a butte behind under a cloudy sky

Dylan Moron

Kyrgyzstan

An aerial view captures the warm light of sunrise or sunset hitting the intricate, eroded ridges of a vast badlands landscape.

Alina Nechaeva

A pathway of dark monoliths leads through a vast orange desert under a giant, glowing sun.

Tyler Glass

Three massive sandstone buttes rise from the red desert floor under a cloudy sky in Monument Valley during late afternoon.

Thiago Ribeiro

Chile

Atacama

A herd of llamas with varied colored coats stand in a dry, rocky, desert landscape under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.

Roger Sieber

Alamosa

Colorado

Woman with a backpack standing on a sand dune, observing another person from a distance in a vast desert landscape with mountains in the background.

Michael Shainblum

Three figures were spotted on a tall sand dune in the distance on a windy day with blowing sand, with a yellow sky in the background.

Jeet Khagram

Sesriem

Hardap Region

A group of people climbing a large dune under a deep blue sky.

Simeon Pratt

Person with flashlight standing at cliff edge looking at desert at night from tent

The Milky Way galaxy stretches across the starry night sky over a desert landscape of large boulders.

A desert with a sandy hill and a clear sky

ThreeSevensStudio

Tarifa

Spain

Andalusia

An athletic woman in brown and black sportswear performs a graceful warrior yoga pose on a rippled sand dune.

Aerial view of mountains across the badlands

Basil Vargas

A person throwing water in the air, wearing a black tank top and light pants in an arid setting.

A red lake with a sand crust from a desert region

Giorgia Didonè

a canyon in the mountains is a completely barren desert

Sylvere Clerempuy

Oman

Ash Sharqiyah North Governorate

A dromedary camel with a colorful saddle stands on a golden sand dune in the desert, with a man and another camel visible in the distance.

Sand dune with winds blowing across its summit, under a dramatic sky with dark clouds.

Annie Denten

Sunlight shines upon a cactus under a clear blue sky

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