Ah, that's the kind of stuff I've been waiting to see. Beautiful... very lonely, moody, but such a great deperature from Blackpool!

Now we can see the desert sand in its context. The composition transmit a feeling of emptiness and desolation. Excellent work! :-)

This looks quite apocalyptic. Great stuff.

Is that the best accommodation you could find ? ;-) Llove the sky.

Beautifull place and sky

thats more like it David! brilliant sky with brilliant colours and tones. good work!

Beautiful and harsh. Well done.

Feels lonely and desolate and the toning helps drive that home. Brilliant shot.

your lens is 24-70 but the focal length is 17. but a decent picture.

So nice to see you out of your element and how well you capture it. I'm saddened you didn't have more time to explore but I'm looking forward to your remaining shots.

Yes, it is a very lonely place. Colours are well framed. The "house" looks very decayed. I like it.

I like the swirling lines in the sand and sky both leading to the enclosure. The sky looks more Blackpool than Dubai though :-)

i like colours

This is so beautiful. Been to Dubai myself and this makes me wanna go back:))

Looks like a lonely, barren place. Glad you had a safe trip.

That's more like it.

Wow, David. You've turned a desolate piece of land into a dramatic photo. I like your ratio between sky and sand. (What is the building?)

Cool, I like it... I think you got the wrong lens in the comment though :D

Beautifully presented and in a silver tray

One more beautiful one !

I love the composition - My only comment is you have some bad colour fringing in the sky.

Interesting... is the vignetting from using at 17mm on full frame sensor or did you add it later?

Great composition. I'm a bit confused but by excited by the texture and color in the sky to the left. I really get a sense of calm before the storm in this picture. It's ironic to see that the building seems like it's been hit already by the impending doom. Love it.

I have a feeling I'm going to agree with Libby. Very cool :)

Wonderful atmosphere and tones, my kind of shots ;-)

Wow, that's really the edge of nowhere !!

In the true style of Chromasia! Much better than the sand pictures... I find it hard to imagine how the place really looked like without the distorted perspectives on the fence at 17mm.
Titus

That is a great photo, love the shot!

very Mad Max

Impressive how this scene is so much different than the pics at the beach! Nice colours too!

Wonderful remotness....true remoteness I guess. And truely evocative abandonment.
It's actually something that can be found, in its own special way, in the fells of the Lancashire and the Peak district (a much closer walking haunt for me David) where the remoteness (even on a smaller scale), the weather and the abandoned barns can create such similar emotions. Eventually I will say I like the photo .... Naah! ... It's bloody brilliant.

Thanks everyone.

Jennifer: :-)

Bald Spots: thanks, I've fixed it now.

Sharla: yep, more time would have been good, and if I get to go back there are several locations I want to visit.

Mike: it's definitely a Dubai sky.

Photo Buffet: as best I could tell it was part goat enclosure and part storage compound.

moonhead: no, there isn't any colour fringing. I suspect you're viewing this on an LCD that can't display all the colours.

Christian: the vignette is part lens part PS.

Richard: give me a shout if you need a companion at some point. It's a while since I visited the Peak District.

David, I'm very jelluos with you. Every single photo you posted it's xcelent and i couldn't imagine you're thinking that way. I try to do the task with my photo but it failed to be same like you did. It's impressive to me the way you look and blending the colors. You got some tips, let me know. Thanks