#LocalLens: Jordan’s Golden Deserts and Night Skies with...

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#LocalLens: Jordan’s Golden Deserts and Night Skies with @farahfoudeh

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“The landscape in Wadi Rum gives you the feeling of being on Mars, and the night sky reminds you how small we really are,” says Farah Foudeh (@farahfoudeh), who lives and works in Amman, Jordan. The 23-year-old grew up in Nigeria, but says she always found a way back home to Amman where she spent summers as a child. Farah spends her spare time hiking and exploring her surroundings and her love for Jordan led to a job at the country’s tourism board. “I am a sucker for silhouettes,” she says, naming Wadi Ibn Hammad and Wadi al Kerak canyons as great places to shoot. “They have natural water flowing through them, and interesting vegetation grows there as a result. You sometimes have desert valleys with palm trees growing horizontally in all directions from the side of the mountains.”

She adds, “One thing people might not know about Jordan is that it gets pretty green here in spring,” referencing mountains in the north of the country. But Farah’s favorite location is the Dead Sea at sunset or sunrise. “The stillness of the Dead Sea mirrors the colors of the sunset perfectly on a clear day.”

Here are some more of Farah’s favorite places to shoot:

• The Siq in Petra — “The narrow pass-way between the canyon walls makes it quite easy to get great compositions, not to mention the lighting there is stunning.”
• Wadi Ibn Hammad, Wadi al Kerak and Wadi Assal — “The canyons are great place to shoot! When the sun is setting I love how the light is reflected off the wet canyon walls.”
• Wadi Rum, also known as the Valley of the Moon — “It’s a three-hour drive from the city, and the perfect getaway to connect with nature and just relax. The silhouettes of the mountains are breathtaking at sunrise, and the entire desert is golden for a few minutes.”

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