#Kuwait - Arab Fund Building #2

Arab Fund Building / Arab Organizations Headquarters Building

A little bit more of the entrance door.

I will get past that point sooner or later ;-)

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

Some more details from the massive wooden doors (which I failed to take a photo of).

The pieces are set in in a way, so they can expand and shrink with heat & cold.

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

Too be continued....

#Kuwait - Arab Fund Building #1

What I've been doing yesterday,

I got invited to a tour of the Arab Fund Building (Arab Organizations Headquarters Building).
I'm not easily impressed, but boy, I certainly was this time!

Don't have the brain capacity to do more editing today, so, here's just the not-so-impressive (from the optics) exterior.
Why are the windows indented? To save energy and keep the dust out.
Why can they not do that all over Kuwait?
Nobody knows. Sigh.

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

Detail from the door frame you see above.

It is hand carved and goes not only around, but is also a solid wall left and right of the door.

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

To be continued....

#Germany - Genovevaburg Mayen

#Kuwait - Salmiya

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

#Kuwait

One of the more interesting buildings in Kuwait :-)

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

#Kuwait - Mosque somewhere...

From Kuwait

The photo is from 2007. I took it during a taxi ride when I first got here.
I was looking for a place (I don't remember which one and I haven't found it until today)
and we had a nice halfday trip up and down through the desert. ;-)

#Germany - Silbersand bei Mayen

From Germany

I remember driving by this house with my Mom on my way to or back from my Grandmoms.
There's two houses in this valley and one bus station.
I wondered what it would be like, living here out in this remote area.
I would have loved it. Being in the woods, playing in the river.
At those days you could ride your bike from Mayen to Rieden as a child without too much worry.
Of course you had idiots on the roads then too, but today I wouldn't advise that any more.
One house is still inhabited, the other one was crumbling and succumbing to Mother Nature then already.
Not much left today.
Just memories.

From Germany

From Germany

From Germany

From Germany

Short colour project

Missed my 'colorful March' post yesterday (I've just figured that this goes only the first week, dooh, darn sun!) so today I take the Liberty of posting blue and green together . Hope that won't get me banned :-)

This is what many of the oh so beautiful apartment around here look like. 
(no claim for art here, just a time pressed phone snap :-))

From 3/5/13

Photography Mentorship Week 2 - Habit forming

One part of the Mentorship program & a lesson for this week is the forming of habits.
I have chosen two to develop in the coming weeks.
1/2 hour each for working in my Zazzle Shop and for cleaning up my ext. Harddrive (current status: 106.328 files, photos from 2004 up to today).
I might pop up with an archive shot as a reward from time to time.
Not that that would sidetrack me....at all.... :-)
But heck, I've done both today, so here comes my reward:

From Egypt

Fake is hip
Il Mercato, Hadaba, Sharm el Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt 2009

#Germany - Mayen, St. Veit Strasse

Yesterday I took a stroll through Mayen, trying to capture some of the old buildings left standing after the war. I was inspired by one of the books about the destruction that happened during the last days of war. 

Mayen was declared a dead city afterward. In the coming days I will go to some of the places in the book and capture the pictures in there the way the places look now.

I’m not sure how old these buildings in the photo are, I just know that for some reason my photos didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to. Time to relearn the camera and its settings, I guess ;-)

#365 - 275 / Spooky house

#365 - 245 / Monreal, Eifel

#Germany, Mayen - Mein Haus, Meine Welt

sagt die Inschrift ueber der Haustuer

#Germany - Koenigsfeld

#365 - 157 / Mayen

#365 - 083 / Fallen