Sands of kings

Sands of kings. 2012.

The Great Pyramids sit on the horizon like patient stone mountains, their flanks catching the late desert light. The road that cuts across the foreground feels almost temporary beside them, a thin grey line passing through thousands of years of history. Soft haze in the sky lifts some of the harshness from the scene, turning the emptiness of the sand into a calm stage where scale and time can sink in.

24 mm • 1/1250 sec • f/4.0 • ISO 100