Fat Tony's Arabian Adventures: October 2008

It was a particularly cold Wairarapa winters night, my wooden Greytown villa was impossible to heat. A year in perpetual summer seemed appealing.

I was talking on the phone with Jarl and I remember saying that it will be an adventure. If that was the only reason I went to Saudi then it's been one hell of a success.

These are my adventures from since arriving in Riyadh, one August high summer night. Mostly travel orientated but also an account of life in Saudi, compound style, on the rare occassions something intersting happened.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Saudi Flowers 1

I had bought the Nikon VR105 awhile back to try macro work, so it was time to do some flowers. The light in my garden is very good. It’s filtered by tonnes of sand in the air that we breath as well as the tree’s, well actually weeds, but I made the gardener let them grow anyway and they looked great. With the sun shining on the tree’s as it went down into the desert I was able to get some great colourful and abstract backgrounds and play with rays breaking through the foliage.

This was the start of something good................