I recently had the great opportunity to travel to the United Arab Emirates to collaborate on some projects with locally renowed photographer Abdullaziz Bin Ali (http://www.abinali.com/abinali/). We lead a workshop locally in Dubai but also journeyed into one of the most starkly beautiful, uninhabited places in the world, called the Empty Quarter which borders Oman, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

The image you see here was one I took during our field session during the group workshop, on a very windy day! Luckily, the locals were much less objectionable to the blowing sand conditions than the local photographers out here in the US would have been!