The Grand Illusion

 

What you're looking at isn't a painting. It's not a photoshop job, or an artist's rendering. It's a National Geographic photograph that captures Namib-Naukluft Park at the most perfect moment imaginable. Click the image to larger size for the full effect.

Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of Namibian camel thorn trees and, while the trees themselves look like etchings from a dream, they're a very real part of one of the country's largest national parks.

Still, it's almost impossible to believe that the only paintbrush used was nature's.

From gizmodo.com.