Wahiba Sands

The desert is full of ripples - and therefore, my hard drive is full of photos full of ripples (and so is my gallery) after my trip to Oman earlier this year. So, I had a bit of difficulty choosing the photo to submit to this challenge. This is what I have come up with. The shot was taken in the Wahiba Sands (Oman), near the spot where I spent my first night under the desert sky. What a place...

Ripples come on three different scales in this shot. There are the obvious fine ripples in the foreground. The dunes, of which there are several in the background, are also ripples, though on a different scale. And finally, almost everything you see in this shot is part of one huge dune strand, dozens of which run in parallel in this desert (the dunes on the very upper left are part of the next strand), forming ripples when viewed from very far away (such as from space).