Black Sea Dawn

It's been a slow, slow summer for taking photos. Work on the new website is coming along at a glacial pace, life keeps getting in the way. Here's one from this morning ...

Packing

It's time to leave Al Ain, I've been busy packing and selling and shipping. Also been busy with a new WEBSITE - quite a steep learning curve but more on that later in the summer.

Border Oasis

Angry Building

Old Buraimi

I've been going across the border to Buraimi quite a lot recently. This is one of the few times I managed to get an interesting sky ...

Desert Fog

... (not much of a) view over Madah and the desert at dawn.

Two Locations

Two of these are from Buraimi, one from the perigee moon in March...

... the other is from woods near Mindya, Bulgaria.

Summertime

It's getting warmer. Thoughts turn to escaping the Gulf's summer heat. This one's from last summer; the (fishing?) pond near our house ...

Sunflowers

Al Ain is full of sunflowers at the moment, planted alongside roads and pavements with miles upon miles of irrigation hose. These, however, are from Bulgaria, which doesn't have a desert climate ...

Old Buraimi

A chance encounter on Google Earth led me to to this location, barely a 15 min drive from my flat ...

Heritage

More from across the border ...

Musandam Boats

Dawn Fog in Oman

View over Mahdah from the aerial tower ...

Buraimi

From this morning in Buraimi ...

And Back To Mraijeb

On the way home

Musandam in Colour

While the weather wasn't very cooperative, the dawn light was pretty weird ...

Cats on the Beach

Waiting for the fishing boats to come home ...

Musandam Mosques

Dhow & Cliff

Something a bit more colourful ...

Musandam Beach

Musandam, Oman

One from last weekend...

Al Ain Outskirts

More from Dubailand ...

The world's longest shadow?

Winter Hike

A few shots from the hike up and along the plateau of Jebel Qatar in December with ENHG... Donkey skull, plateau, fox trap ...

Dune Pano

An eleven shot stitch, ninety-six megapixels, about one hundred and fifty by fifty centimetres.

Dusk colours

Sand Alert ...

In answer to the question; "I wonder what's behind the next dune?" ... ... more from Rub Al Khali coming soon ...

City Centre Oasis

Slightly different from the previous one ...

Friday Morning in 'Ain

A very busy morning at the local track ...

Finally ...

... got round to taking some photos. From this morning, in Al Ain oasis ... ... and one in colour ...

Summer Time

Looking forward to less of this ... ... and more of this ...

Beit Ramza, Damascus