A dead camel thorn tree that has endured centuries of harsh desert climate, stands defiantly against the Big Daddy Dune in the Dead Vlei of Sossuvlei, Namibia. I tried my best to capture the bare essentials of the Dead Vlei, how the light at different hours of the day can dramatically change the colors of the iron rich sand dunes, how the early morning sun can even make the parched pan glow and how this skeleton of a dead tree is still there against all odds, century after century.