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View of the Killpecker Sand Dunes in Wyoming's Red Desert, north of Rock Springs. The dunes, formed about 1 million years ago when volcanoes spewed lava and hot ash over much of what is today Sweetwater County. Millennia of dormancy and wind erosion turned the volcanic materials into thousands of acres of exceptionally soft sand, pldhigh to create a sandy playground, especially popular with those riding dune buggies
View of the Killpecker Sand Dunes in Wyoming's Red Desert, north of Rock Springs. The dunes, formed about 1 million years ago when volcanoes spewed lava and hot ash over much of what is today Sweetwater County. Millennia of dormancy and wind erosion turned the volcanic materials into thousands of acres of exceptionally soft sand, pldhigh to create a sandy playground, especially popular with those riding dune buggies
View of the Killpecker Sand Dunes in Wyoming's Red Desert, north of Rock Springs. The dunes, formed about 1 million years ago when volcanoes spewed lava and hot ash over much of what is today Sweetwater County. Millennia of dormancy and wind erosion turned the volcanic materials into thousands of acres of exceptionally soft sand, pldhigh to create a sandy playground, especially popular with those riding dune buggies
View of the Killpecker Sand Dunes in Wyoming's Red Desert, north of Rock Springs. The dunes, formed about 1 million years ago when volcanoes spewed lava and hot ash over much of what is today Sweetwater County. Millennia of dormancy and wind erosion turned the volcanic materials into thousands of acres of exceptionally soft sand, pldhigh to create a sandy playground, especially popular with those riding dune buggies
View of the Killpecker Sand Dunes in Wyoming's Red Desert, north of Rock Springs. The dunes, formed about 1 million years ago when volcanoes spewed lava and hot ash over much of what is today Sweetwater County. Millennia of dormancy and wind erosion turned the volcanic materials into thousands of acres of exceptionally soft sand, pldhigh to create a sandy playground, especially popular with those riding dune buggies
A small natural-gas structure, one of hundreds in Wyoming's arid Red Desert, a vast petrochemical-rich area between Rawlins and Green River. The environs do not look desert-like in many places, other than a rich sand deposit called the Killpecker Dunes; owing to the patches of sagebrush and hardy grasses that hide much of the red soil below
A small natural-gas structure, one of hundreds in Wyoming's arid Red Desert, a vast petrochemical-rich area between Rawlins and Green River. The environs do not look desert-like in many places, other than a rich sand deposit called the Killpecker Dunes; owing to the patches of sagebrush and hardy grasses that hide much of the red soil below
Distant view of the Kilpecker sand dunes and the forbidding Sweetwater County high-plains terrain in Wyoming. Kilpecker's are the world's second-largest active sand dunes, behind the Sahara in Africa, more than a mile above sea level
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, one of America's newest national parks to be established (in 2004), in the San Luis Valley at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Range. The dunes, the tallest in North America, were formed from sand and soil deposits of the Rio Grande River and its tributaries, flowing through the valley
View of the Killpecker Sand Dunes in Wyoming's Red Desert, north of Rock Springs. The dunes, formed about 1 million years ago when volcanoes spewed lava and hot ash over much of what is today Sweetwater County. Millennia of dormancy and wind erosion turned the volcanic materials into thousands of acres of exceptionally soft sand, pldhigh to create a sandy playground, especially popular with those riding dune buggies
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Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)