Monthly Archives: October 2010

THE STORY BEHIND THE PICTURE

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Michael Yamashita

SINGING SAND DUNES OF DUNHUANG, CHINA This 1,000 foot high dune was given this name by Marco Polo for the sound the wind makes as it blows over the top.  I arrived to find thousands of tourists and hundreds of … Continue reading →

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THE STORY BEHIND THE PICTURE

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Michael Yamashita

One of the challenges of shooting stories about ancient explorers like Marco Polo is in finding modern-day equivalents to the sights a fourteenth- century traveler wrote about.  In Iran, on the Persian Gulf, I was on the lookout for the … Continue reading →

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