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Hello?

Hello?

The Red Sea, Tiran, Egypt Click here to share this image. Sorry, folks. A couple of days lost to computer and network issues. Microsoft’s signature Windows Vista and wireless networking; need I say more? Moving right along, continuing our Egypt survey …. Touring Egypt 24: Let’s make this Friday low drama (for a change). Here’s […]


All About Time

All About Time

Saqqara, near Giza, Egypt “Old and Young”Click here to share this image.Touring Egypt 23: Which of the two pyramids in the above photo is the oldest? (Ok, it is a dumb question. Rhetorical. You don’t need to answer. Is there any reader who won’t guess the one in the background, which is obviously in better […]


Favorite Fish

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

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

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 […]