Posted on November 29, 2019
Back to a previous life this week for Cee’s Black $ White Photo Challenge with the topic of Doors and Drawers.
This was my office on the twenty-third floor of the headquarters of the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, where I spent the last – and best – ten years of my working life. That’s the door on the right and obviously those are drawers underneath the desktop.
What I can’t get over is how tidy it was. My desk at home is an absolute tip.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge : Doors & Drawers
Category: Black & White Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, desk, drawers, office
Posted on November 26, 2019
When we lived in Abu Dhabi, our go-to place for a little peace and relaxation was the Sir Bani Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi. This was the swimming pool.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Peace
Category: Landscape Tagged: Abu Dhabi, fpj-photo-challenge, Peace, Peaceful, seascape, Sir Bani Yas, Sir Bani Yas Hotel
Posted on October 22, 2019
This giraffe in the game reservation on Sir Bani Yas island in Abu Dhabi has no idea that the setting sun makes it look like it’s wearing a golden crown.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Sunset
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Abu Dhabi, fpj-photo-challenge, Giraffes, Sir Bani Yas, sunset
Posted on October 15, 2019
A very interesting challenge from Frank this week. He invites us to go to our back catalog(ue) and take a new look at an old image – probably something we could all benefit from doing more often.
This is part of the exterior of a hotel on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. The original – reproduced in the smaller photo below – is pretty ho-hum: no doubt why I’ve never done anything with it. However, after some cropping and ‘popping’ in Lightroom post-processing it becomes a more striking abstract geometric composition.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Back Catalog(ue)
Category: Abstract Tagged: Abstract, Abu Dhabi, Architecture, Editing, fpj-photo-challenge, geometric, hotel, Yas Island
Posted on August 27, 2019
For Frank’s theme of ‘City’ this week, here is the view from the balcony of our apartment at sunset. The traffic wasn’t usually quite so bad, but it was National Day.
Category: Landscape Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Architecture, City, Cityscape, fpj-photo-challenge, Sunlight, sunset, Tuesday Photo Challenge
Posted on July 30, 2019
Detail from the roof of a contemporary building in the Manarat al Saadiyat cultural district of Abu Dhabi.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Rectangles
Category: Abstract, Composition Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Architecture, fpj-photo-challenge, Geometry, Manarat Al Saadiyat, rectangles
Posted on July 3, 2019
Frank’s theme for this week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge is ‘Outdoors’.
In the broadest terms, I suppose that any image that wasn’t actually captured in an interior would qualify. However, in this shot – another from Sir Bani Yas island in Abu Dhabi – I’ve gone for more of a ‘great outdoors’ feel, which is certainly enhanced by the moon hanging over the landscape.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Outdoors
Category: Landscape Tagged: Abu Dhabi, fpj-photo-challenge, Landscape, Moon, Outdoors, Sir Bani Yas