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Headline: British Photographer Captures Desolate Namibian Desert

Caption: PICTURE SHOWS: ... STORY COPY: A British photographer has captured the desolate wonder of the Namibian desert. Exploring just shy of the Angolan border, Paul Goldstein documented the hardy creatures that eke out an existance in the barren landscape. His sightings included a venomous horned adder, giraffe and an inquisitive spotted eagle owl. The Exodus Travels (www.exodus.co.uk) guide explains: "For five days we saw no-one, in fact on the whole safari I think I counted four other vehicles which is a pretty special dividend in any wilderness in the world. There are more fabled sand dunes in Sesriem in the south west of the country but the sculpted ones in the North are every bit as impressive and with no other tourists. I saw the same tracks we had left the previous year to prove this' "Sometimes there is no rain for several years yet hardy animals still survive, somehow eking out an existence in the desert. Giraffes, oryx, birdlife, snakes (an extremely venemous horned adder in this case) and black and white desert beetles. "However it is the immaculately formed dunes that are the most seductive and they have bewitched me for many years. The Atlantic is not very far away and the cold sniping winds scud over the Skeleton coast changing the shape of the sand formations almost daily. This remote area takes a bit of getting to and is not everyone's cup of tea, but to me it is without parallel, built, literally on sand."

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