Drifting Sands (Photography)

Rippling waves of gypsum sand are captured as they drift at White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico's Tularosa Basin. Originally a large national monument, created in 1933, the location was changed to a national park in 2019. The park's 175-square-mile field of gypsum sand is surrounded by another famous, but nearly forbidden, site: the top-secret White Sands Missile Range, whose occasional tests require that the park be closed.

Photographer: Carol Highsmith
Date: February 5, 2021
Location: White Sands, New Mexico