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Lens-Artists Challenge: Cinematic
Posted on April 28, 2025
This week we’re looking for cinematic images.
I took this photo in the desert outside the city of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. For me, the main attractions were the strong leading line and the combination of sand, scrub and stone. Oh, and the symmetry of the two slopes.
It’s not too much of a stretch to see this as an establishing shot in a Western, with the added mystery of what could be lying in wait on the other side of that crest……
Lens-artists Challenge: Resilience
Posted on January 14, 2025
In the parched desert outside the city of Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, some hardy bushes can demonstrate the resilience to cling to life even in the harshest of conditions.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Empty Spaces
Posted on November 27, 2023
The Emirate of Dubai isn’t just the city itself – that’s probably the least attractive part of it – but quite a lot of empty desert and mountainous terrain, like this at the old Hatta Fort Hotel.
Signs Of Life
Posted on August 20, 2021
There are many animal tracks to be seen in this part of the desert outside Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Sand
Posted on October 10, 2017
This week, Frank has chosen ‘sand’ as his Tuesday Challenge theme.
I think I can help you there. We lived in Abu Dhabi for ten years and were surrounded by the stuff.
This image, however, comes from the desert just outside the oasis town of Al Ain. It’s not that far from civilisation (witness the electricity pylons on the horizon), but the dunes seem to roll away endlessly in every direction. Note also the animal tracks.
The Ghaf Tree
Posted on September 16, 2016
In the desert outside Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, this single, isolated, ghaf tree somehow manages to flourish.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare
Posted on August 20, 2016
In the desert outside Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, anything green is a rare commodity.
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