Peaceful Dunes
Open, textures significant part of picture.
Each year I hike into the dunes. (here) I try to go on the hottest day of the year.
Far from people, It is always peaceful there. Occasionally something special happens. Eternity. A sense of timelessness.
Dunes are an a.n.t. landscape.
Dune ripple texture from here.
Sky hdri from www.AmbientCG.com.
Cycles render.
There is some banding caused by many repetitions of the ripple bump.
The bright ground makes your pupils contract. That makes the sky look dark. I tried to capture that in this image but just slightly darker and the picture didn’t look right.
Edit: I changed the sky to an hdri from the web. The Bryce sky I made a long time ago was low res. Changed camera location.
Edit: Higher res HDRI, changed dune material for more visibility of shapes.