Saturday 3 April 2010

Off-Road

I may have mentioned that my dad's a total outdoor person, and over the past year, he's built up a pretty good stash of camping supplies. He drives a Prado, which makes all those wonderful rocky areas of Oman much more accessible. Plus, we have tents. Three of them, a two-man tent, a four-man tent and a three-man tent. Dad also happily bought a camping stove and the gas packs, and last year, (sadly without me) my parents have been going camping around Oman. Of course, dad did feel rather bad that I wasn't there with them, so he kinda made it up to me last week.
On Thursday night, and I do mean night (we left at 8.30pm) we went to a wonderful quiet beach an hour's drive away. The parents, me, and some friends of the parents. We got there at 11.30, and the moon, though not full, was huge and bright, so I tried some long-exposure shots, all of which sucked. It was a pretty messy expedition, mom was supposed to cook, but she didn't have time, so we just picked up pav bhaji and some parathas, and we attacked them the minute we chose a spot on the beach. And then, Dad and I had the delightful task of setting up our tent in the dark. We're having pretty strange weather, it's normally boiling, but then there was this sudden breeze that WOULD have blown away the tent...if I wasn't sitting in it.
Mom woke me up at 6.30 to see the sun rising right in front of my face.
It's a pretty cool way to wake up, I guarantee you that.



This is a crop of a slightly bigger photo I took that day...


12 comments:

scarlet pimpernel said...

Like the 1st candid shot .. it has somany layers in it ;-)
and oh ! .. even the flies are doing it

Espèra said...

Lol! Humping flies! HAHA!
Its a pretty good shot btw.

Jack said...

Mystique,

Nice photographs. When are you coming back to college?

Take care

The Pernicious One said...

I absolutely love the second picture. Did you get the band from Azaad Bazaar?

The third picture is insanely brilliant :D

Mystique said...

@ Scarlet: of course!

@ Sam: i call it...Insect Porn.

@ Jack: Thanks! i'm on summer vacation now, college starts on 7th june.

@ Esha: yep, Azaad Bazaar :D

scarlet pimpernel said...

Did u use a macro lense ?

Tensor said...

Nice shots, and
Insect porn !! Lol :D

25BAR said...

Simply brilliant. Nice photos and location.

Mystique said...

@ Scarlet: No, just macro mode on my camera

@ tensor: thanks.

@ 25Bar: Thank you ver much.

Oman Collective Intelligence said...

lol....

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Anonymous said...

You got a tinge of dark humor in your stuff