Category Archives: Desert

Photo of the Week – Red Sinkhole

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Two weeks ago I posted a photo of a blue-green pool in Nahal Saar on the Golan. This photo of a water filled sinkhole by the Dead Sea was taken across from Ein Gedi with my iPhone (that’s the camera I had with me).

Sinkhole pool
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Sinkholes along the Dead Sea are a serious ecological problem, check out my post at https://israeltours.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/dead-sea/.

Photographs on this website are © Shmuel Browns (unless marked otherwise) – if you are interested in purchasing one of my photos or using one of my photos for your own project please contact me.

Photo of the Week – Shehoret Canyon

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Continuing south from the Dead Sea along highway <90> the geology changes as you approach the mountains around Eilat. Along with limestone there is now sandstone and granite. This photo was taken on a hike in the Shehoret canyon (the black mountain is granite). You can click on the image for a larger view (which may take some time to load depending on your Internet connection). Please share this post with your friends by clicking on the icons at the end of this message.

The technical details – the photo was taken with a Nikon D70 (digital SLR) camera with a Nikon 18-70mm lens in October (ISO 200, 50mm, F11 at 1/400 sec).

For more information about hiking near Eilat check out my post at https://israel-tourguide.info/2011/03/11/israel-trail-encounter/

Photographs on this website are © Shmuel Browns (unless marked otherwise) – if you are interested in purchasing one of my photos or using one of my photos for your own project please contact me.

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Photo of the Week – Dead Sea

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Last week I posted a photograph of a natural sculpture on the cliffs above En Gedi. If you continue south along the Dead Sea you come to the area of Biblical Sodom and Gemorah, a rock salt mountain. A short hike up gives a great view of the Dead Sea. You can click on the image for a larger view (which may take some time to load depending on your Internet connection). Please share this post with your friends by clicking on the icons at the end of this message.

The technical details – the photo was taken with a Nikon D90 (digital SLR) camera with a Nikon 18-70mm lens on December 16 (ISO 200, 25mm, F9 at 1/320 sec).

For more information check out my post at https://israeltours.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/mount-sodom/

Photographs on this website are © Shmuel Browns (unless marked otherwise) – if you are interested in purchasing one of my photos or using one of my photos for your own project please contact me.

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Photo of the Week – Ein Gedi

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Last week a shot of sinkholes on the shore of the Dead Sea with the cliffs above En Gedi in the background, this week a shot of a hole in the rock, a natural sculpture on the cliffs. You can click on the image for a larger view (which may take some time to load depending on your Internet connection). Please share this post with your friends by clicking on the icons at the end of this message.

The technical details – the photo was taken with a Nikon D90 (digital SLR) camera with a Nikon 18-70mm lens on October 27 (ISO 200, 25mm, F10 at 1/400 sec).

For more ideas on other hikes in the area check out my post at https://israeltours.wordpress.com/hiking-israel/.

Photographs on this website are © Shmuel Browns (unless marked otherwise) – if you are interested in purchasing one of my photos or using one of my photos for your own project please contact me.

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You might be wondering if this photo was shot on a different planet but in fact it is in Israel (like all these photos), a shot of sinkholes on the shore of the Dead Sea with the cliffs above En Gedi in the background. You can click on the image for a larger view (which may take some time to load depending on your Internet connection). Please share this post with your friends by clicking on the icons at the end of this message.

Dead Sea Sinkholes

The technical details – the photo was taken with a Nikon D90 (digital SLR) camera with a Nikon 18-70mm lens on July 2 (ISO 200, 29mm, F11 at 1/400 sec).

For more information about the Dead Sea check out my post at https://israeltours.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/dead-sea/.
I’ve uploaded a set of sinkhole photographs to Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/27944012@N06/sets/72157621040678204/

Photographs on this website are © Shmuel Browns (unless marked otherwise) – if you are interested in purchasing one of my photos or using one of my photos for your own project please contact me.

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This week has flown by as we celebrated our daughter Tiferet’s wedding to Boaz last Sunday and enjoyed the time with friends and family. So it’s Sunday and time for this week’s photo. I chose a place in the Judean desert, less than a half hour from Jerusalem on the way to the Dead Sea, a great place to hike. You can click on the image for a larger view (which may take some time to load depending on your Internet connection). Included is information about the photo – where it was taken, the technical details of the photo, etc.  Please share this post via email, on Facebook or Twitter by clicking on the icons at the end of this message.

This photo was taken with a Nikon D90 (digital SLR) camera with a Nikon 18-70mm lens in the early afternoon of November 27th,  (ISO 400, 18mm, F9 at 1/125 sec).

The photo was taken while hiking Nahal Og. For additional photos and a description of our hike check out the blog post at https://israeltours.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/hiking-nahal-og/

Photographs on this website are © Shmuel Browns (unless marked otherwise) – if you are interested in purchasing one of my photos or using one of my photos for your own project please contact me.