Idus Martiae.
Summer No2.
Summer No2.
With luck there will be many more days like this.
Summer !
Quintessential English summer evening.
Mysterious opening – Birkat al Mouz.
Mysterious opening – Birkat al Mouz.
Door detail – Birkat al Mouz.
Door detail from Birkat al Mouz abandoned village.
Palm Grove.
Palm Grove.
Mirbat – Oman.
No amount of work will repair this boat – beached at Mirbat Dhofar.
The bucket.
The bucket.
Nikon 35Ti. Kodak Tmax 400 @ 320 iso, toned & diffused.
Abandoned.
Made with Yashica 124G on T-max 400 @ iso 320.
From my files back in 2010.
Hi Fi.
Not made any music posts for some time – here is one of my Jazz favourites.
My SME series III arm and Ariston Transcription turntable.
Got my UK Hi Fi running after many years of being in semi storage, Vinyl was not practical in Oman, if you could even buy any !
I now have my Quad amplifier and record deck playing again; gave it a good service as capacitors do not like long-term storage – some needed replacing as they have a nasty habit of exploding with a messy bang when old and not used.
I don’t only use film cameras, I also have analogue audio 🙂
Hero.
How long before the lock is on its own?
Becoming Terminal.
This door has seen many attempts at repair, I think it’s in the last stages of abandonment & decay.
En garde.
En garde.
Wadi in flood.
Wadi in flood – made about seven years ago.
I got wet feet that day, just gave up trying to keep my boots dry; fortunately double socks kept my feet from chafing and the boots soon dried.
Hibiscus.
Garden flower.
Dandelion.
Just a garden Dandelion.
SQGM – optical illusion.
Illusion of light – I lost control of the highlights but it was the only way I could keep this illusion.
SQGM – Arch detail.
I do like this building, so revisiting the files from December 2015 (ho where does the time go!) is a great pleasure for me.
Window detail – SQGM Oman.
Window detail – SQGM Sultanate of Oman.
Pushing the limits of my 35mm lens.
Part of The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque.
Early morning light.
Palm in dappled sunlight.
Palm in dappled sunlight.
Sentinels.
Sentinels stand guard over a Bronze-age Archæology site.
Decorated old door.
Decorated for luck & welcome.
Husn Al Heem – Sultanate of Oman.
A picture postcard version of Husn Al Heem (more commonly known as Nakhal Fort)
Al Batinah Region of Oman.
A tree on the move.
An Onodrim or ‘Tree-Host’ ?
Things have changed. Some of us are still true Ents, and lively enough in our fashion, but many are growing sleepy, going tree-ish, as you might say. Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake. Some are quite wide awake, and a few are, well, ah, well getting Entish. That is going on all the time. (Treebeard)
I think I was about 17 when I first read this book and have enjoyed reading it on many occasions since: liked the film series, not so much the several wireless versions that have been produced over the years. But the books remain the best way of enjoying the adventures of ‘Middle-earth’ and Hobbits.
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien.
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