Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

There is a very romantic private resort in Oman called Zighy Bay. It has a tower, on the roof of which it is possible to dine by candlelight. To get to the roof, you need to go inside, and up this spiral staircase. It’s worth it.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective

This is the building in Abu Dhabi where I used to work… …fortunately, not as a window cleaner. (Happily, they now have proper cradles for the job)

Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned

Oradour-sur-Glane is a village not far from here. In 1944 it was the scene of a Nazi atrocity, which can be read about here. A new village was built nearby after the war, but the original is now preserved as a permanent museum and memorial to the 642 named victims.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Object

This photograph was part of a ‘homework’ assignment on a weekend Photography course I took a few years ago. The decanter’s multi-faceted stopper threw up endless possibilities.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition

A palm tree reflected in the blue plate glass windows of the Bainunah Hilton on Abu Dhabi’s Corniche. The double bluff is that the palm tree is actually a mobile phone mast.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Family

Three photographs with a recurring theme, taken at the Vallee des Singes, in the Vienne departement. The one of the Capucins has already been featured, with others, in another post over on my other blog.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Window

A stained glass window in the church at Montrol-Senard.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning

Snowdrops traditionally mark the arrival of spring:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Joy

So, which two year old wouldn’t like playing peek-a-boo with grandpa?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Community

Community? Well, it’s a broad brief, to be sure. I suppose ‘community of interest’ would qualify as an example, and if these guys don’t have a shared interest – and mutual trust – then I don’t know who does. [National Day celebrations in Abu Dhabi; also illustrates one of the advantages of living on the twelfth floor]