"First Light"

Masada National Park - Judean Desert - Israel - November 2006

@ ISO 400, f/4

First light over the desert and Masada mountain. That night we had a visitor: a fox. The little Canis looked for food and it could smell our dinner leftovers for km's away, so when darkness and stillness ruled, it moved and started to dig underneath a big rock me and Oz hid the trash bag - we expected that company would arrive and inspect the area, we just didn't believe it would happen so soon. The fox, I must say, was suffering from hunger more than from fear. It dug underneath the stone while I shone with my headlight on my forehead and camera in the other hand. Unfortunately, the camera refused to focus no matter what, so eventually I went to sleep with blurred pictures which I purged later on.

That night the moon shone and around 4 am we had quite a lot of light so we could easily distinguish the outlines of Masada Mountain, the mountain we would climb in less than two hours time. While Oz arranged his stuff, I took the time to keep a memory of that impressive sight.

The camp tent and vehicle was of others travelers that still slept even when we were half way up on the mountain...

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