Favorite Fish
The Red Sea, near Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt “Look at Me!”Click here to share this image.Touring Egypt 22: The scalefin anthea. I finally managed a shot of one of these little beauties. Finally! I had been trying for days and through many, many attempts — most leading to bad photos or serendipitous shots of other species […]
Patience
Saqqara, near Giza and Cairo, Egypt Click here to share this image.Touring Egypt 21: Police of the Tourist and Antiquities service patrol the vast, wide-open spaces around the pyramids at Giza and nearby Saqqara on camels. Tourists frequently see the camel-mounted police around the pyramids and temples. (Of course, tourists can also get “up close […]
Me and My Shadow
The Red Sea, Ras Gazlani, Egypt Click here to share this image.Touring Egypt 20: This is not the fish I sought or the shot I wanted on this day. I spent most of this dive trying to get a shot of the ubiquitous scalefin anthea*, a brightly-colored orange, yellow, pink, and sometimes purple small fish […]
Old-Fashioned Supermarket
Cairo, Egypt “Snacks and Condiments”Click here to share or send a greeting with this image.Touring Egypt 19: Supermarkets have become ubiquitous worldwide, but sometimes those of us who live in western cities (especially America) forget that most of the world does not actually shop at a supermarket. While in Cairo, my party went several times […]
Come to School
The Red Sea, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt “The Class”Click here to share or send a greeting with this image.Touring Egypt 18: New divers arriving at Sharm el-Sheikh always have at least one “check-out” dive before joining the longer boat trips to the famous dive sites of the Red Sea. One of the places favored by the […]
