With the drawn out shadows and lone silhouetted figure, it’s truly hypnotic, on first glance as if the staircase is jutting above low clouds. Taken from a raised viewpoint by drone against a setting sun, it maximizes the sense of scale and the tire-marked texture of the salt flats.
This photo elevates the stairway beyond a simple tourist snapshot.
Travel affords us the opportunity to see spectacular architecture, art work and monuments, and so travel photographers have to be aware of a certain truth: that an image of a spectacular thing isn’t always a spectacular image. This stairs to nowhere, a sculpture by artist Gastón Ugalde, purely made of salt, is supposed to represent "the passage to the sky." “During wet season, the whole salar is a huge mirror and you can't tell the difference between the ground and the sky,” the photographer explains. It was taken in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia,the world’s largest salt flat, a legacy from a prehistoric lake that went dry, leaving behind a nearly 11,000-square-kilometer landscape of bright-white salt, rock formations and cacti-studded islands. Finalist Photo: Philip Marshall - Life-Framer-World-Traveler Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, the world’s largest salt flat.
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