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a traveler at sunrise on a tour of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
December 18, 2014

Salar de Uyuni Sunrise

“No wind, no sound—it was a very calm morning,” writes Hideki Mizuta, a member of our Your Shot community who captured this image at Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni. “I joined a sunrise tour at 2 a.m., first seeing a star-filled sky, and then early in the morning, around 5 a.m., this scene appeared through the window of the car. I ran out in a hurry. It was an amazing view that I couldn’t put into words. I thought, I want this scene all to myself, and walked away from people and took this photo in absolute silence.”

Mizuta’s picture recently appeared in Your Shot’s Daily Dozen.

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Photograph by Hideki Mizuta, National Geographic Your Shot
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