Moonrise Over a Namibian Desert "As the full moon rises over the endless dunes, the sand takes on an otherworldly glow. The skeletal remains of a long- dead tree stretch toward the sky, its twisted branches casting elongated shadows across the barren landscape. An old wooden signpost, half- buried in the shifting sands, points in opposite directions—though the words carved into it have been worn away by time. The night air is thick with silence, broken only by the distant, rhythmic clicking of unseen insects. Far beyond the dunes, a single light flickers—then disappears. "