Dusk. It’s such a special time.

The light is fading, and somehow I find my feelings about life, where I am, and what is to come, surface in my thoughts.

Watching the hues change on a sand dune as the colour temperature moves from daylight to dusk is always a special time for me. These feelings about life, the past, the future, are often eclipsed by the feelings of ‘now’. Photography seems to do one of two things for me: I am either living in the present moment, or I find that I become invisible to myself. All thoughts and worries dissolve, and in a way, it’s the best form of meditation that I have in my life.

I loved the latter part of my private trip to Lençóis. I had booked to travel around the periphery of the park in a Toyota Hilux, and these moments were the best: being able to direct my driver and guide, to be able to navigate over great distances to reach a vantage point that I thought may work for the photographs I wished to compose really helped.

I am now busy working on the set of images I made last May. I am so glad I bought my own film processor and I am finding the results from the home development are better than what I have had from many labs this past decade.