The Salar de Uyuni is one of the natural wonders of the World. A high salt desert and, yet another Bolivian superlative, the largest salt lake in the World; we saw it in the wet season when shallow water turns the surface into a huge mirror and a source of endless entertainment for photographers. The frontier feel town of Uyuni on the edge of the lake, a former railway junction, is enhanced by the antique train graveyard on its outskirts, a further source of pleasure for sunset photographers when dying light gilds ancient rust with improbable majesty.
In truth the keen photographer finds it almost impossible to put down his camera in this part of the World, remembering only that one extraordinary view or another of a salt mirror or the rocks and coloured lakes, the cacti topped with flowering tonsures, the beautiful barren views of the Siloli desert, not to mention thousands of flying, resting, shuffling flamingos, may need heavy editing before boring the home audience to death.
Regretfully one has to admit that 1 vicuna, a handful of flamingos, the extraordinary rocky ‘Salvador Dali’ landscapes in some areas of the desert that the artist surely must have seen, the steaming, bubbling geezers, friends bathing in a hot spring, and one flaming red or green stretch of water from a mineral coloured lake, may be enough but it is so very irresistible and so very hard to choose one or another from all your thrilling compositions even if they don’t look quite so good in their hundreds at the third viewing on the home computer.....
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