Tag: Foto Friday

A portfolio of photography from my years of travel.

Foto Friday – Dadès Gorges (Morocco)

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Dadès Gorges

The Gorges du Dadès is a gorge created by the Dadès River and lies between the Atlas Mountains and Anti-Atlas mountain ranges in Morocco. Driving up the many precipitous hairpins in our 4WD Jeep turned out to be one of life’s great unexpected but thrilling experiences!

This photograph that was taken while leaning out of the Jeep window just had to be taken as we neared the crest of the pass at the moment when the road below finally unveiled herself to us in all her twisty and switchback glory.

See more photos at: http://www.fluidr.com/photos/44720200@N02/sets

Foto Friday – Man Ma Temple, (Sheung Wan), Hong Kong

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Man Mo Temple, (Sheung Wan)

Huge incense coils hanging from the ceiling of the Man Po Temple one of Hong Kong’s oldest and most important places of worship. Photography is really forbidden within the temple but by showing some respect to the temple attendant and making a small donation to the temple’s funds via the tin piggy bank a quick shot can be grabbed.

It has to be quick in any case because the burnt incense has a bad habit of falling directly on your head as you wander beneath the myriad of prayer coils hanging from the ceiling, some may say it’s divine intervention in response to your flagrant disobedience of the house rules!

Foto Friday – Eminönu from the Galata Bridge, Istanbul

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Eminönu from the Galata Bridge, Istanbul

The Galata Bridge in Istanbul links Europe to Asia across the waters of the Golden Horn. Eminönu is a district on the south bank of the water on the european side. The skyline is littered with domes and minarets from the many mosques that define this area making for some great photo opportunities from the vantage point of the bridge.

This photograph was shot on an old analog Pentax camera using film and the negatives were later scanned in for digital use.

See some more photos at: http://www.fluidr.com/photos/44720200@N02/sets

Foto Friday – The Chand Baori step well Rajasthan, India

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This step well is located opposite the Harshat Mata Temple, constructed in 800 c. and is one of the deepest and largest step wells in India. It was built in the 9th century and has 3500 narrow steps in 13 stories and is 100 feet deep. It was the most amazing sight to come across in the middle of rural India, literally in the middle of some fields.

The main trouble in attempting to get a photograph that really showed off the true size and scale of the structure was in getting a wide enough angle of shot to pay justice to it! I failed, but I still like this shot! You can however get some idea of the scale of the place from the tiny people seen wandering around the top levels.