Abandoned carpet – from my negative files.
Tag: Oman
Steps No3.
From my Oman files.
Steps No2.
From my Oman files.
Steps No1.
More alternative visualisations/previously un-scanned negatives or processed files from Oman, starting with this one, made in 2010.
Being stopped from travel and almost locked away for more than a year, I’ve not had much enthusiasm or even opportunity for photography. So going through my negatives/slides and digital files has kept me from going ‘Doolally’, for those not familiar with this word: it means ‘lose one’s mind’, derived from the boredom felt at a British Army transit camp in Maharashtra India, established in 1861.
Open doors No.6.
Open doors No.6 – from my Oman files.
Open doors No5.
What’s left of the plaster and stone work on this ruin,
would indicate a rather spectacular entrance at some point in time.
From my Oman files.
Open doors No4.
From my Oman files.
Open doors No3.
From my Oman negative files.
Open doors – No2.
Being watched (this cat was not in the least bit worried that I was there, able to use both my Nikon F2sb and Bronica S2a) although he did move his head when the Bronica shutter tripped; for those that don’t know this camera, it’s loud!
From my Oman negative files – 1980’s Kodak Tri-X
Open doors.
From my Oman negative files – pushed T-Max 400.
Window with bars – N07.
Window with bars – N07.
From my Oman files: I found one with mostly straight walls! it’s a problem with these historic forts, there is not always much room, forcing me to use a wider angle lens than I would normally like. It tends to exaggerate the builders imperfections along with those of the lens.
Window with bars – N06.
Window with bars – N06.
From my Oman files.
Window with bars – N05.
Window with bars – N05.
Window with bars – No4.
Window with bars – No4.
From my Oman files.
Window with bars – No3.
Window with bars – No3.
From my Oman files.
Early morning mist.
Early morning mist: from my Oman files.
Window with bars – No2.
Window with bars No2.
From my Oman negative files.
Window with bars.
Derelict window with bars.
From my Oman files.
Mist on the Jebel.
Mist on the Jebel – from my Oman files.
For those interested, this was made with my Nikon F4, Nikkor 20mm f2.8 D and Tri-X (old style) in D76 1+1.
For some reason I kept these details in my darkroom log book, probably because it was old film from my freezer.
Bicycles Salalah – Dhofar Oman.
Goldline bicycle Salalah – Dhofar Oman.
From my files.
A Box.
A box: or the lasts resting place of Rincewind’s ‘The Luggage’ for those familiar with the books of Terry Pratchett.
From my Oman files.
Swirling sand.
Swirling sand.
From my Oman files.
Stone with sand swirls No2.
Stone with sand swirls No2.
From my Oman files.
Stone with sand swirls.
Stone with sand swirls.
From my Oman files.
Decorative pots.
Decorative pots; from my Oman files.
David A Lockwood 