Your inspiration this week is windows…..or of a landscape or piece of art that’s like a window to another world for you.
Windows of Mirbat.
A town in Southern Oman that is slowly crumbling away.
Wandering around the streets, there is a shot at every step, but it’s the windows that my lens points towards.
These little wooden, arched and shuttered Omani windows; I wonder at the lives led behind them in the days when old Mirbat was thriving.
Windows on another world…
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Such a marvelous series of photos! I love the shapes and textures and colours! And I chuckled when I reached the end…with the goats… 🙂
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Those are gorgeous, Vicky.
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Thank you, Mick. Each time I visit Mirbat, I feel like I’m capturing its last days. I’ve been there about 5 times now over my years here, with an archive of shots to boot and I always take some time to revisit but sadly, the old town is crumbling away. But it’s the same for many of the remote places we pass through in Oman on our travels, I feel like I’m recording moments in time…
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And you are. Build that Archive, Vicky,
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I will Mick, for my own satisfaction primarily, but maybe one day, someone would like my records…
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The last photo took me quite by surprise – not only because the windows and their shutters looked somewhat different, but because of the goats. That’s a sight I don’t see very often … like never 😉
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Thank you, Joanne. Goats are everywhere in Oman that there is a minimum of grazing, I have some wonderful “unexpected” goat photos! When I finally sort out my picture archive, there could be a Goat post!
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I have a bit of a soft spot for goats – especially baby goats. They’re hilarious 🙂
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Thank you for the wonderful windows and doors (and livestock). Such beauty and originality everywhere. What a shame the city is crumbling. It’s beautiful, still, even in decay.
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Thank you, Marian, for your comment. Oman is just a wonderful place, I love the old towns, but they are fading and changing. Everyone wants to be more modern, the old heritage is disappearing, I have seen it over my trips in the last 5 years, at least I have a little record of it!
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Amazing photo collection. ❤
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