A Culture Clash a/k/a What is THAT? - #310

The historic dubayy and the thrusting avant garde DXB in a face off.

Place your bets. (Offshore)

Camel Colours - #239

The Best Of Last Year - #123

Happy New Year!

To start the year we have our monthly theme day and this time the theme is the best shot of 2006. This is my personal favourite, I only posted it recently so it's a little weird posting it again so quickly, but it really is my favourite shot of the year!

The 2 runner up shots were:

Blooop x 1,000

and

Langdons Cascade

Wishing you the very best for 2007.

Bluey

52 Daily Photo sites are participating in the 1st January theme, "My best photograph from last year", please use the links to below to visit them.

Due to time zone differences and other factors, the theme photo may not be displayed until later if you are viewing early in the day.

1 (Porto (Portugal) ) -2 (Albuquerque, NM (USA) ) -3 (St. Paul, (USA) Kate ) -4 (Greenville,SC (USA) ) -5 (Stayton, OR (USA) ) -6 (Szentes (Hungary) ) -7 (Hyde (UK) ) -8 (London (UK) ) -9 (Dubai (UAE) ) -10 (Buenos Aires (Argentina) ) -11 (Shanghai (China) ) -12 (Nelson (New Zealand) ) -13 (Twin Cities, MN (USA) ) -14 (Joplin MO (USA) ) -15 (Stavanger (Norway) ) -16 (Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) ) -17 (Not Strictly Seattle, WA (USA) ) -18 (Jakarta (Indonesia) ) -19 (Auckland (New Zealand) ) -20 (Sharon, CT (USA) ) -21 (Evry (France) ) -22 ((Aust) John ) -23 (Newcastle upon Tyne (England) ) -24 (Paris (France) ) -25 (Bandung (Indonesia) ) -26 (Brussels (Belgium) ) -27 (Minneapolis MN (USA) ) -28 (Aliso Viejo, CA (USA) ) -29 (Seattle, WA (USA) ) -30 (Budapest (Hungary) ) -31 (Singapore by Zannnie (Singapore) ) -32 (Tenerife (Spain) ) -33 (Santa Clara, CA (USA) ) -34 (Houston, TX (USA) ) -35 (Sydney by Nathalie (Aust) ) -36 (San Diego, CA (USA) ) -37 (Vancouver, BC (Canada) ) -38 (Singapore by KeropokMan (Singapore) ) -39 (East Lansing, MI (USA) ) -40 (Sydney by Sally (Australia) ) -41 (Tucson, AZ (USA) ) -42 (Nottingham (UK) ) -43 (Sequim, by Norma ) -44 (Hong Kong ) -45 (Vantaa, Finland ) -46 (Kyoto (Japan) ) -47 (Tokyo (Japan) ) -48 (Chattanooga ) -49 (Santiago (Chile) ) -50 (erlin (Germany) ) -51 (Trondheim (Norway) ) -52 (Delta, CO (USA))

Camel Guy No. 3 - #119

A cool jockey. We had a brief but good shouted conversation as he went past...

All the jockeys / handlers seem like decent guys who are happy to tolerate us staring at them and asking stupid questions.

P.S. For some reason there are weird internet issues going on in the UAE right now, hopefully temporary, although if there are no posts in the coming days it'll be down to connectivity problems. I hope this is not the case though...

Camel Guy No.2 - #111

If I've told you once... don't make me come over there and tell you again...

Sniff, sniff... what's that smell? - #100

... that's the smell of 100 photos in 100 days!

This shot was taken today at BIg Red Dunes in Dubai, with my wife and our visiting good friends Stella and Keith. A cool day!

It's been a fun 100 days. I hope to bring many more photos over the next 100 days and more.

Thanks to all for dropping by!

Congrats to my Daily Photo Twin" Jing in Shanghai - who also celebrates 100 posts today!

Bluey, shaken not stirred and most assuredly - at your service.

The Old And The New - #77

A mix of the old and the new...

The ancient heritage of exercising the camels and the birth of a city in the background. Note the tallest building is the Burj Dubai which will be the worlds tallest building by the end of 2008. It is currently over 80 floors and is only less than half built...

I apologise if I feature camels too much... I've still not grown tired of them and may always find them more interesting than sheep or cows.

Camel Boy - Nad Al Sheba - #68

Another nice part of Dubai is the camel pens out at Nad Al Sheba.

There has been certain bad practices employed over the years to do with camel jockeys, however now they have been replaced with robots.

I do hope to get a robot camel jockey for you all soon.

P.S. If anyone knows the company that manufactures robot jockeys - can I suggest that they make them small for household pets? I would love to race my three cats...

Do Camels Prefer The Front Crawl Or The Backstroke? - #48

Too hot?

I wish I knew....

One Hump Or Two, My Dear? - #12

Dubai? Desert? NATURE?? Nah...

Well, not quite true... there are so many indigenous and extrageneous critters here. Drift to the outskirts of the city and you will find some nomadic pachyderms for ones optical pleasure.