On our trip to Turkey in December 2025, we went exclusively to see Cappadocia and explore a desert area 🏜️ in the north-central part of the country that really took us by surprise.
The colorful mountains were very reminiscent of the red rock formations in Utah. And, just like when you get lost in Utah, we were completely alone here too. It’s not a tourist area, and that gave it an incredible atmosphere, especially when exploring it at sunrise and sunset 🌅✨
For this shot, I used the @brightin.star 12mm f2.8 lens 📸, a focal length I love because it strikes the perfect balance between a very powerful foreground and a nice background—something you can really appreciate here. Since I was very close to the mud, I took the image using focus stacking: one shot for the foreground, another for the midground, and another for the background. Even shooting at f/16 to maximize depth of field, I found the lens’s sharpness to be very good.
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