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Seeing the big old turtle slowly creep out of the hole she had dug in the sand and slow plod to the Indian ocean as the sun was rising was a mystical experience for me–somehow spiritual. It started before dawn, when in the murky darkness, I walked with about a dozen people and an...
It’s not surprising that Oman has been a major ship building country for generations. Surrounded by water on three sides, the Arabian country has depended on water for its livelihood for hundreds of years. That’s all changed now, but dhows, the traditional wooden Arabian boat...
The Image Making opportunities on every photography trip I have enjoyed have been different. In India, the people love having their photos taken so portraits tend to be a main focus. In Iceland, the geography dominates. In Burgundy, France, I loved the small textured villages and beautiful...
If you visit the Grand Mosques in the Middle East you want to look up and look down. Why? To marvel at the magnificent chandeliers and the rugs. I saw this first hand on a recent trip to the Middle East (Feb. 2020 before the Covid shutdown) when I had a chance to […]
AS I put my Olympus viewfinder up to my eye, I had to move a bit to the left to avoid an elbow and then, oops, someone bumped me from behind and I lost sight of my subject—a sad faced little goat under the arm of a dishdasha dressed Omani who was struggling to make […]
I found encounters with children on the photo trip I took to Oman in Feb. 2020 to be especially poignant. We didn’t have many. My sense is that children are kept at home with their Mothers, maybe not having as much freedom as some children in the world. It is always wonderful to have...
If you have never heard of Musandam, you are not alone. Very few people even knew what I was talking about when I said I was going to Oman, much less the far north part of the country. Musandam is a remote patch of the planet, the kind of place that gets blank stares when […]
It is hard to imagine that just a couple of months ago I was in the Middle East focusing what to take photos of and which doggone settings on my camera to use create the perfect image. (Jim Cline Photo Tour) Wow. My world has changed. Yours too. While we are in a scary […]
On one of the early days of my two week trip to Oman, I found myself looking out over the old town area of Muscat, the capital of the country. We had climbed 50 or so steps to the top of an ancient fort to observe the sunset, capturing images of this beautiful moment. Yes, […]