24th November 2015. Atacama Desert, Northern Chile.

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Continuing on from the previous post, this is the group I am travelling with.  It is an ordinary tour, not a photographic tour, but there are plenty of opportunities for photography.

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We are now at Laguna Cejar.

I was setting up to photograph some flamingos when some people came running along the boardwalk towards me crying out “Flamingo!  Flamingo!”  Of course the flamingos flew off and I didn’t get the photograph. (Sigh).  These are much further away.  Not to worry, there are some better flamingo images coming up in  a later post.

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There are three lakes at Laguna Cejar and the main purpose of stopping was to offer the chance of a swim in a salt lake.  The concentration of salt is higher here than the Dead Sea so floating is not difficult.  I wasn’t interested in that though, I had come for the photography.  You may need to click on this image to see it at a better size (though still a bit small because it’s  very long).

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This image and the next one are also at Laguna Cejar.

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We are now at Laguna Tebenquiche but you can’t see it yet so we are looking at Cordillera de la Costa.

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The rest of the post shows images of the salt lakes and salt flats at Laguna Tebenquiche and the mountains behind, as sunset approaches and the sun recedes.

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There is a bird here amongst the salt – of what kind I have no idea.

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Clearly the sun is getting lower now.

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It seems to be after sunset now.

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We were eating dinner before heading back and there were birds flying round.  The light was very low so I experimented with slow shutter speeds at high ISO.

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