In 2005 I traveled to Brazil with my first dslr, a Canon D20, an 8 megapixel, crop sensor with a kit lens. There were problems with focus and low light, but it preformed pretty well. But I didn’t think I made many images that were great, but some of them taken around the beach town of Jericoacoara and the strange dunes of the Lençois were interesting.

Jericoacoara could only be reached by traveling along the beaches that run for hundreds of miles in the northeast before Natal and the Amazon. Traveling by dune buggies along pristine white beaches and mangrove wetlands was an amazing journey.

The Lençois is a National Park of sand dunes with fresh water ponds between them. It is like the Sahara Desert except it has water. The river town of Barreirinhas is nearby with palm nuts and fresh water fish available as well as an open air butcher shop.