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This blog is a record of my journey as a photographer. It is a place to play with ideas, a place to post experiments, reflections, reviews, and anything else I might find, create, or edit. It's a scrapbook, a notebook, a journal, a diary. It's a place to play and a place to reflect; a place to collect and recollect. It's also part of a requirement for a course I have begun. I hope my tutor is not the only visitor.
This photo was taken in a lot behind a strip mall off one of the main roads of Ras Al Khaimah, a dusty scrap yard in the northern tip of the UAE. There isn't a lot here but rocky mountains. Even the desert areas are rocky, not the picturesque orange dunes. It's said that when Sheikh Zayed, the founder of the country, watched the American landing in 1969, he remarked on how the landscape of the moon looked similar to that of Ras Al Khaimah. Also like the moon, not a lot of people come to visit. It's a quiet corner of the world, which seems to be why those who like it stay. No one's planning to take your job or develop your land or put a megamall next to your house.
RAK has been a good place to lay low for the last three years. From the fall, I'll be in the urban throng in Dubai.
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