Where to find?

[TheBadger]

Hello,

Was hoping you guys might know the name of a real place that I can google, of a desert where (from some part of it) you can see a lush green environment. So like the sahara with a view of some jungle. Or a rocky dry desert with a view of a lush forest.
Ideally of a place where the transition form desert to forest/jungle is a very sharp/immediate change, little or no buffer space between the two. Maybe one is in the hills and one in a plateau or valley?

cheers.

[Dune]

Try Namibia river or something, there are some nice transitions there maybe. And how about this for a challenge, nice huge boulders: http://valvs.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/img_7639.jpg

[Oshyan]

Perhaps the keyword "oasis" (not the band, hehe) will lead you there...
https://www.google.com/search?q=jungle+desert&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Gb0zUfuNIaWZiAL0poGQAw&ved=0CDcQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=1099#hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=oasis+-band+-music&oq=oasis+-band+-music&gs_l=img.3...3260.6516.4.6729.9.8.1.0.0.0.139.551.6j2.8.0...0.0...1c.1.5.img.oHtjn8msNCc&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.43148975,d.cGE&fp=11db456ec9529aec&biw=1600&bih=1099

- Oshyan

[TheBadger]

Ulco
The colors in the reference link you posted are nearly exactly what I had in my mind. But the color dropper in my software does not yet work on my brain. So thanks for the link. I will be using that pallet.

Oshyan
Thanks man, there is some stuff in there that is working for me. I think I will place my point of view just at the edge of a low desert looking forward to a high desert forest, and bace the transition from the one to the other on some of the images your images lead me to, roughly.