Tag Archives: Oman

Wheres my Backpack/Travel Theme: Dry

Posted on February 1, 2014 by 2far2shout

Where’s my backpack: Ailsa has given us a challenge to show DRY. Here I share a few of my photos from Oman, most of the time a very dry place. A Wadi is a water course created by run-off of heavy … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon

Posted on October 25, 2013 by 2far2shout

Horizons seem to want to exist at the point where the land and the sea meet the sky. Here are some ‘ends of the world’ as the Flat Earthers might have believed From this beach in Oman on the shore of … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

Posted on September 28, 2013 by 2far2shout

The cemetery at Izki in the interior of Oman. The basic rules of burial in the Moslem tradition states: 620. * It is obligatory to bury a dead body in the ground, so deep that its smell does not come … Continue reading →

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Travel Theme/Were’s My Backpack: Distance

Posted on September 1, 2013 by 2far2shout

Distance is often difficult to capture on camera. So often a distant view is obscured by mist, dust, pollution and combinations of all the above. Other times definition is limited by the camera itself. Here I sit in silhouette against … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

Posted on August 3, 2013 by 2far2shout

Clever goats foreshadow the onset of a huge storm approaching, hoping for shelter in recesses of an unfinished garden wall. (near Samial, the Sultanate of Oman)

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

Posted on April 19, 2013 by 2far2shout

A soaring minaret of the Central Mosque in Muscat, Oman

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