This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand ...

This ghost town in the Namib Desert lures visitors with its haunting blend of abandoned opulence and eerie desert allure.

Images can be in colour or black and white and although may ... Michael Schober (Austria) reveals a precious waterhole inset like a green gem within the sand dunes of the Namib Desert. The emerald ...

each one made up of many images stacked on each other. Gigi Williams Gigi Williams' photograph of the Namib Desert in Namibia was awarded first place in the Plants and Planets category.