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Below is the paintwork done on the inside dome of the Masjid across the road from home. This picture shows the detail of the inner dome which covers the main prayer area.

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Shot manually: F16 at 1/61second. 55mm, Iso 100

intricate work on the outside walls of the masjid

During our stay in Egypt earlier this year, we took a short weekend break to the coastal town of Alexandria. The must-see is the amazing bibliotheca, however in these pictures I’ve put together a few snapshots of Alexandria city-life, the boats & beaches as well as Pompeii’s pillar.

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So after posting this twitter status,  I’m going to do the cliched photo-a-day project for this site.   Lets see how this pans out.  Have a ton of great ideas ranging from Islamic patterns, grunge textures, skylines and the obligatory automotive images.

Below is today’s image.

A left hand drive Volkswagen Corrado,  we (autostyle) purchased this about 8 months ago and slowly but surely restoring it to its former glory.  Shot manually on a Canon 1000D F/11 – 1/15sec @ ISO 100. Bunch of photoshop gradients, overlays & cropping to give the final result below:

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These are a few sunset photographs of Alexandria, Egypt, taken from the coastline outside of Fort Qaitbay.   I really need to invest in a portable tripod or better still get a gorilla-pod to improve on these random photography shots

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We did a little desert trip labeled “Following the footsteps of King Farouk, the last king of Egypt”

Roughly  70km outside of Cairo, after the Helwan toll-road, the driver literally took a 90degree left turn off the highway into the desert.  No markers or signs, just a GPS and a broken down concrete barrier showed the evidence of this unofficial route.  Apparently Bedouins use this to cross through the mountains toward the Red Sea. Why?  To smuggle hashish!

Approximately 10km into the desert on rocky dirt roads, the original tarmac road has be completely wiped out in the last 50 years by flash-floods and sandstorms, we reach the hunting outpost by King Farouk.  Apparently this was also used to house the exiled King of Albania. These days Bedouins use this for a shelter or rendezvous point and all that’s left are empty structures and dried out gardens.

Lots of dusty wind, extreme heat and harsh sun meant many of the images below had to be photoshopped a bit.
click here to read more about this trip.

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