An adventurous Russian-born photographer recently captured some outlandish landscape images of Socotra—an island of extraordinary geography off the east coast of Africa and Yemen. Words cannot properly describe some of the pictures the trip produced. Daniel Kordan, a Nikon ambassador who now lives in a gorgeous villa in Tuscany, journeyed to Socotra with a mission to capture the unique island’s stunning features, including its remarkable flora and white sand dunes. He describes the island as “one of the most stunning places on the planet to photograph.” Among the top spots Kordan visited and managed to capture on the island was the Diksam Plateau, a spot that hosts the Dracaena cinnabari, otherwise known as the “dragon blood tree.” The tree, of distinctive, eye-catching anatomical form, bears a legend for its peculiar name: the first dragon blood tree is said to have been formed from the blood of a dragon wounded battling …