Egypt, Syria and Jordan 2009-2010

The mideast is amazing and wonderful, not only because of the light, but also because of the friendliness and charm of almost all the people one meets. Syria is especially exciting, and the absense of crowds of tourists adds to the pleasure. From a photographic point of view, the amazing light, and the chance to make photographs that can incorporate the almost timeless quality of places that have been lived in, overrun by conquests, and remain lived in today provided an opportunity to create images that suggest what I like to suggest - that pictures do more than register a moment but also have a musical quality. That is, that as in music, any phrase is perceived as part of a process in which what came before and might follow is present in the now.
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Abu Simbel Temple of Raa Harakhte
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Giza
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Karnak
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Saqqara
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Bosra, Roman and Syrian
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Saqqara (Memphis)
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Roman House Available for Rent
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Luxor
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Petra
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Aleppo 15th Century
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Krac Des Chevalliers, Interior
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Krac Des Chevalliers, Hospitallers
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Krac Des Chevalliers, Moat
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Shahba, Syria, Weaver
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan On the Path to Petra Tombs I
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan On the Path to Petra Tombs II
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan On the Path to Petra Tombs III
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Tombs, Petra, Jordan
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Apemea, Roman and Byzantine
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Cheops Pyramid
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Cairo Market Alley
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Nile Near Qena
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Bosra, Syria, Weaver
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Bosra, Roman Bath
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Roman and Byzantine
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan What The Warriors Saw
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Nile, West Bank, Near Luxor
 
 


Egypt, Syria and Jordan Fortress, Desert at Dusk
 
 


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