Tag Archives: photography

Sep 19 2016

Monday Window: 19/9/16

A slightly “loose” interpretation of window this week, but I’m sure you will agree it was too good to miss.

The only access to Masirah Island, Oman is via ferry and nowadays there is a government service and small local ferries.  Continue reading →

Sep 15 2016

Thursday Doors: 15/9/16

I featured an unusual window in the small Cypriot village of Emba in this Monday Window post. At the same house, the door is worthy of a post, which should have been last week’s offering for Thursday doors, but as I was felled by a nasty summer cold, my Thursday doors didn’t happen.  Continue reading →

Sep 12 2016

Monday Window: 12/9/16

Day tripping to Limassol town in Cyprus, lunching at the new and rather glamorous Limassol Marina, then a visit to one of the property developer’s site offices.  Continue reading →

Sep 5 2016

Monday Window: 5/9/16

Just one window this week. Not far from my home in Cyprus, on a journey I take frequently, I pass an old house in the centre of the village.  Continue reading →

Sep 1 2016

Thursday Doors: 1/9/16

Up in the hills above my home in Cyprus is a beautiful little monastery called Stavros Tis Minthis which dates back to the 12th century.  Continue reading →

Aug 29 2016

Monday Window: 29/8/16

I spent time photographing the old fishing port of Mirbat on my last visit to the Dhofar region of Southern Oman in June. Doors and windows from this old town have featured in my posts over the last the few weeks, I expect I must head on up the coast now.

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Aug 26 2016

Skywatch Friday: 26/8/16

No, it’s a Cypus sunset, no-where near Italy…

Before sunset, from Mirage, Paphos, Cyprus…….

Linking with Skywatch Friday, pop over and check out the sky today……

Aug 25 2016

Thursday Doors: 25/8/16

Come and walk with me around Mirbat, a fishing town on the South Oman, around 70km from Salalah . Last week we entered the old town, this week join me as we head on around the corner.

There are many old towns in Oman but in this one, I felt I was recording for posterity. Towns are abandoned and slowly fall to the ground, the history is gone.  Continue reading →

Aug 22 2016

Monday Window: 22/8/16

 

Windows in Mirbat, Southern Oman.

These windows in the walls of the house are unique, so many tales to tell, but we will never know…  Continue reading →

Aug 21 2016

Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare #3

A rare sight- A live Conus textile (Linnaeus, 1758) on the prowl, siphon extended.

Cone snails are one of the most venomous creatures on earth. Among the most toxic are the textile, geographic, and tulip snails and there is a higher risk of death if the geographic and textile snails are involved. All capture their prey by means of harpoon-like hollow teeth (radula) that are rapidly jabbed into their prey to inject the toxic venom. Attacks on humans usually occur when a cone snail is either stepped on in the ocean or picked up from the water or the beach.There are known human fatalities from this species.

Their geographical distribution is throughout the Indo-Pacific region, Australia, and the Indian Ocean from eastern Africa to Hawaii and French Polynesia.

The textile cone lives in the sand beneath coral and rocks in shallow waters. If you do come across one, admire quickly and walk away. Do not pick one up…..

 

 

Aug 21 2016

Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare #2

A white carpet anemone (Stichodactyla sp.), a rare find in the inter-tidal zone at an extremely low tide on a lonely beach   near Shannah, Oman. An Indo-Pacific occupant, living on reefs or on the sandy bottom, these anemones can attain a size of two and a half feet in diameter. Potentially harmful to humans ( a potent sting) they act as a host for many types of clownfish.

Rare

Aug 20 2016

Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare….

As a seashell collector, this beautiful shell was a rare beach find for me.

This Lambis truncata sebae (Kiener, 1843) was found washed up on a rock shelf at low tide just south of Dibba in the United Arab Emirates. Imagine my pleasure to spot this virtually intact sub-adult lying in a rock pool after a storm.

More on my Lambis finds at the link.

Rare

Aug 19 2016

Skywatch Friday: 19/8/16….

Above Hilvan, Sanliurfa, Turkey heading home to Cyprus….just a little bank of wispy cloud in an endless blue sky…..

Linking with Skywatch Friday There are always some beautiful skies to be seen all over the world, pop over and take a look.

Aug 18 2016

Thursday Doors: 18/8/16

It’s Thursday again..where did the week go? The” full of good intention” head plan for this week’s doors post ran out of time.

So here’s a little taster and next week I’ll take you around an eclectic collection of Arabian doors and windows from this old city.  Continue reading →