The ground at Lake Natron

You come to Lake Natron for the flamingos and end up photographing the floor. The soda and minerals leave the ground in colours that do not look like ground: rust orange, chalk white, cracked into patterns that change every few steps.

The footprint was the one that stopped me, a single deep press in the wet mud with the ridges holding light. Everything out here leaves a mark and the lake keeps it for a while. Then the wide frames, the flats running flat and bright to the hills, which is the scale the close-ups leave out.

The two orange close-ups are the 135 pushed to ISO 1600 and 3200 to stay sharp handheld at f/19; the flats are the 55 back at base ISO. All of it Lake Natron, looking down instead of out.