Three-quarter length portrait of two ... Pakistan

Three-quarter length portrait of two ... PakistanThree quarter length portrait of two men, retainers of Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, standing in front of a cannon outside Qasr Al Hosn fort in Abu Dhabi. Both men wear ghutra (headscarves) topped with agal (head ropes) and khanjar daggers in their ammunition belts. Behind the men arish huts and date palms can be seen in the background. When this picture was taken Qasr Al Hosn fort was the home of Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, then

Close up portrait of Alaiwa bin Lutaiya

Full length standing portrait of a boy in front of a house at Dubai Creek

Interior view of the unfinished mudhif (guest house) belonging to Raudha

returning from Zanzibar to its home port of Kuwait

are enclosed by a large fence

In the distance groves of palm trees grow in the wadi behind the city

A peregrine falcon perches in profile on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand

Muhammad bin Fadil sits astride his camel

with the Omani type of camel-saddle clearly visible on the camel in the foreground

migrating from Lake Shiva above the Oxus valley back to winter pastures

The Umm Qarqar spring in the Wadi Kidyat

On the right a forth member of the party walks between two couched camels