Category: Kuwait

  • Rain makes new growth

    Grass in the desert

    It doesn’t take long after some rain for the grass to start growing.

  • Crashed Vehicle

    Crashed vehicle

    Sunday, November 02, 2008 9:53:59 PM I saw this in the lot by the police compound near the British Embassy. I think they keep the crashed vehicles for court cases or insurance settlements. I have not idea on what happened to the occupants.
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  • Fishing near Kuwait Towers



    Fishing near Kuwait Towers, originally uploaded by Mister Ian.

  • Kuwait Towers at Night

    Kuwait Towers at Night

    We had some time in the evening after dinner at Mais Alghanim. I took a few more interesting shots which I’ll post later. Now it is way too late at night for me to not be asleep!!!

  • I was in the back seat with my camera gear so time again to play.
    Driving at night on the Faheel Expressway in Kuwait

    In this case, I used the flash very low reflected off the ceiling to light the inside a bit.

    Light traffic on Faheel Expressway at Night

    And here we are off the main road very near the British School of Kuwait.

    Slowing down for the ever present speed bumps in Salwa

  • Dead Tanks in Kuwait

    This image is from The Big Picture, The Earth From Above I hope Yann Arthus-Bertrand doesn’t mind me using his copyrighted image in a reduced size in this post. His photos are awesome, and it must have been hard to get permission to take some of them. In Kuwait private ownership of aircraft isn’t allowed as far as I know it so how would he do it?

    I’m not sure I want to go there considering all the depleted uranium that was used in the first Gulf War. And it makes me think how much depleted uranium dust is in the air in Kuwait particularly in the dust storms that we had for so much of this year.

    Here is where the photo was taken.

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