Photographed in Umm Al Quwain, one of the northern emirates of the UAE, this surreal landscape captures a haunting scene of stark resilience and profound solitude. A lone tree stands defiantly atop a small mound of sand, its roots partially exposed, clawing into the earth like hands holding on to existence itself. Its leafless branches stretch outward, suspended in a sky heavy with dust and silence.
The surrounding desert—endless, golden, empty—amplifies the tree’s isolation. In the foreground, a fallen limb lies half-buried, as if nature herself had tried and failed to endure. In the distant haze, ghostly remnants of structures or perhaps gravestones echo another forgotten presence, enhancing the scene’s spectral tone.
This is not merely a landscape—it is an existential frame. A study in endurance, in memory, in the mute poetry of survival. The photograph evokes the surreal and metaphysical: what lives here? What has passed? What dreams once rose and faded in this place?
Its power lies not in drama, but in its quiet tension—between life and decay, presence and disappearance. This is the desert as dream, as metaphor, as solemn truth.
I am an experienced professional freelance photographer with decades of expertise in various photography genre, including industrial, studio, travel, landscape, sport, and more. I have a distinguished career as a photography and film-making instructor spanning over 40 years... Read more…