Looking Out to the Kalon Mosque, Bukhara
My best selling and most highly acclaimed photograph (not that that’s saying much!). The Kalon Mosque mosque in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Famous for having one of …
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25 Nov
Dombro Player at Sunset
Dombro Player at Sunset
A statue of a traditional Kazakh woman holding the dombro, a two-string lyre and the ancestor of the guitar. Sitting by the banks of the …
25 Nov
Great Warrior
Great Warrior
A close up of a statue of a Kazakh warrior put up for the Astana Day celebrations outside Capital Park. I liked the way his …
25 Nov
Music Shop
Music Shop
As part of the Astana Day celebrations of 2009, they set up a music shop inside a yurt. Fascinating to see the variations in designs …
14 Nov
Zhumbaktas
Zhumbaktas
A mysterious rock in the middle of Lake Boroboe in Northern Kazakhstan. Legend has it that the army of Ablai Khan took an Oirat princess captive and forced her to marry a Kazakh warrior. She fell deeply in love with one warrior but the others were jealous. So she said that she would marry the man who could shoot to the top of a rock outcrop near the lake. All failed the first time, but her love hit it on the second try. The rivals killed him so she flung herself in the lake and became Zhumbaktas (Mysterious Stone).
14 Nov
Khan Shatyr: Climbing the World’s Biggest Tent
Khan Shatyr: Climbing the World’s Biggest Tent
Khan Shatyr is the new architectural oddity of Astana that just opened recently. It’s yet another shopping mall to open here. However the form is very beautiful and it is literally a tent, rather than a building apparently. I was lucky enough to capture some workers climbing up the side, to clean it or fix it, I don’t know.
Monthly Archives: November 2010