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Top View

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Bahrain’s most-famous landmark, the Bahrain Financial Harbour towers,  photographed from another equally famous structure, the World Trade Centre, this evening. The view, which I saw for the first time, is a photographer’s delight at any time, especially at night. It presents a remarkable view of the Manama skyline as well as the busy King Faisal Highway, Bahrain’s lifeline and the centre of the country’s financial district. I am sure this picture, taken with a mobile phone and with a rooftop swimming pool in the foreground, is just the first among a few score I will snap in the coming few weeks and months, especially in the winter.

Centre Piece

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Centre Piece

One of my favourite pictures of the Bahrain World Trade Centre, taken a little more than a year ago. Before the twin towers, as well as the not do far away Bahrain Financial Harbour buildings came up, there was no real landmark in the country visible from anywhere. Though no one ever gets lost on Bahrain’s streets, if one does, he simply has to look for the “towers” and get his bearings. And it always works.
This building is also one of the most well-lighted and decorated during a celebration or a festival.

Dense City

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Dense City

This picture was taken from a helicopter back in March 2009 when I was among four or five people who had gone up to have an Ariel look at Bahrain’s then new Khalifa Bin Salman Port.
The skyline looks pretty much the same even now, with just a few more buildings added but the iconic Bahrain Financial Harbour and the Bahrain World Trade Centre, as usual, stand majestically, towering over Manama and, pretty much, over all the country.
Though I was not then, and until now, aware that Bahrain has one of the highest population densities anywhere in the world, this view seems to prove that is true.
The population density is now reportedly nearly 1,000 people per square kilometre and, according to the Infoplease.com website, it is seventh after Monaco, Singapore, Vatican City, Maldives, Malta and Bangladesh.
Also accompanying me was our professional photographer, Jayanchandran, a Bahrain veteran of several memorable shots and dozens of chopper rides, and credited with some of the most beautiful shots I have seen of the country.

Tower Power

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Bahrain’s most famous landmarks pictured through my SUV’s rear view mirror from the Busaiteen coast . The two most ‘photogenic’ structures in the country – Bahrain Financial Harbour and the Bahrain World Trade Centre – are also the most architecturally pleasing, designed with considerable thought on how to take advantage of what the nation has in abundance – wind and sunlight!

Weather Bug

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hIt’s yet another dull, dreary and hazy day in Bahrain today, one of many that will happen until the end of the month. It is said of Bahrain there are five seasons every day in this island nation with the weather changing as many times during a 24-hour period. However, that is true mainly for the cold and windy winter months and not for the summer when the only two seasons are ‘hot’ and ‘very hot’.