Oregon Dunes: Serpentine by auntietk

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jun 09, 2011

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Another shot from the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The Oregon Dunes stretch from Coos Bay to Florence, and are the largest expanse of coastal sand dunes in North America. These free-flowing dunes are disappearing fast, although efforts are underway to save them. European beach grass, introduced in the early 1900s, anchors the sand and prevents it from blowing. This allows other vegetation to take root, and eventually the dune becomes just another hill covered in grass, brush and eventually trees. Seventy-five years ago approximately 80% of the dunes were free sand. Today only 20% of the area is open sand. The rest has been covered in vegetation.

Comments (30)

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m_j_s

6:48PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

Nice effect by managing to make the background almost black, Very nice shot!

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morningglory

7:12PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

Just love this....it would great in large format on a wall.

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wysiwig

7:15PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

Very nice. The dark/light contrasts are brilliant. And I really like the subtle shadowing on the dune in the foreground.

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Orinoor

7:33PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

You are really making me miss the beach! This is a wonderful shot.

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alwaysonmymind

7:38PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

Day and night in the same scene! A true successor of Magritte!

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bobrgallegos

7:56PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

Beautiful!! The contrast between the sand and the dark backround really sets this off.

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Faemike55

7:58PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

Very cool capture, Tara interesting facts about the sand which is there

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barbdennist

8:30PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

A very beautiful shot, Tara. I really hate to see the dunes disappearing.

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jocko500

10:07PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

wonderful light and shadows

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jophoto

10:10PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

I saw them around 22 or 23 years ago. They must be totally different now...Fine picture Tara!

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beachzz

10:53PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

I love dunes; there's something so free and soft and wonderful about them. I only know the ones near me in northern California, it must be incredible to see an expanse as vast as this one. May they survive, in spite of man's help. This is a stunning foto!!

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wotan

11:11PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

Wow, great contrast!

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bmac62

11:23PM | Thu, 09 June 2011

Wasn't this from the day we both said we didn't have energy to climb anymore dunes...and then we DID! What's a few more aches when there are photos to take? Superb postwork making this extraordinary.

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