The bucket.

Nikon 35Ti. Kodak Tmax 400 @ 320 iso, toned & diffused.

Tree roots – Shams.

Tree roots – Shams

Nikon 35Ti – Jebel Shams No3.

Tree & rocks-no3-Shams – with diffusion using Cokin filter held in front of lens.
Nikon 35Ti – Kodak T-Max 100 (old style) in Microdol-x @ 1+3.

Nikon 35Ti – Jebel Shams No2.

Nikon 35Ti – Kodak T-Max 100 (old style) in Microdol-x @ 1+3.

Bush & rocks – Shams.

Nikon 35Ti – Kodak T-Max 100 (old style) in Microdol-x @ 1+3.

Two stones.

Nikon 35Ti: made on Ilford Xp2.

Each man has his own preferences:
All things seek their own companions.
I have come to fear that the world of youth
Has no room for one with long white hair.
I turn my head and ask a pair of stones:
“Can you be companions for an old man?”
Although the stones cannot speak.
They agree that we three shall be friends.

From a poem by Bai Juyi: 772–846, Chinese poet.

I posted a similar photograph of these two stones some time back: but with the big stone turned the other way. I prefer this one as it’s how I found them.

Blocked Door.

Nikon 35Ti on Kodak T-max 400.

The village this was made at, has not been occupied for around 40 years.
I have no idea why or how this trunk got placed in front of a door that leads into a very derelict building.

Old Style.

Nikon 35Ti with T-Max 400 @ box speed.
Playing in Photoshop – in the darkroom, I would use wet tissue paper to achieve the same result.
As thin as possible & wet so that it is semi-translucent.

Fishermen shacks Masirah

Nikon 35Ti – Tmax 100

Fishermen shacks Masirah Island.

Walk along most of the beaches in Masirah and eventually you will come across these shacks built of anything that can be scrounged; either from the sea or abandoned by the military.

It can be quite interesting rummaging around, looking at what has been used – oil drums filled with sand were quite popular after the departure of the RAF in the early 70’s.

I remember a rather large pile of abandoned materials disappearing within less than 24 hours after our American colleagues left, at the end of the ‘first Gulf War’ .

Mind you I did get rather a lot of ‘MREs’ or (meals rejected by Ethiopians) so should not be that critical of the local fishermen. 🙂

Masirah net floats.

Nikon 35Ti – Tmax 100.