Posts Tagged ‘fishing boat’
The Graveyard, a Panorama February 10th, 2010
As promised earlier, here is the panorama I stitched together from 11 pictures I took on my visit to the dhow graveyard in Mina Zayed.
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More pictures coming soon!
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The Graveyard February 6th, 2010
There’s a clearing in Abu Dhabi’s old Mina Zayed which doubles as a graveyard for derelict dhows.
I recently had the opportunity to explore it. Here are a few of the resulting pictures.
The mina (port) is gradually being torn down to be replaced by highrise hotels, office and residential buildings. The first signs of the changes to come are starting to be visible.
I guess the old must make way for the new.
I did some more experimenting with HDR this round. The HDR images below were created from 7 exposures each.
The light was just perfect. It was late evening and the sun was low on the horizon.
I loved the sunlight through the window.
The hull of one dhow was ripped open, the rusted metal sheeting peeling away from the wood planks beneath.
Most all the propellers of the derelict dhows were rusted black. This was the only one which still retained its original paint – a rusty red.
I’ll be posting a panorama I took of the graveyard soon.
Stay tuned for more pictures!
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