What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
Pigeons take to the skies near the Bahrain Financial Harbour Twin Towers, Manama. Summer 2015
Reaching for the sky
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‘Public’ transport
Bicycles always make a great picture but when it’s so many lined up in one place, the photograph becomes quite striking. This row of the so called common man’s transport is pictured next to the Bahrain Financial Harbour twin towers in Central Manama. I was told the cycles belong to the scores of mainly Asian expatriates who throng the nearby Bab Al Bahrain area to make some money cleaning cars, running sundry errands or working part-time as houseboys.
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Time Take
This is a picture of Bahrain’s Seef area today. As I strolled around the coast I could not but remember the time when I first came to Bahrain a decade and a half ago when this entire area had no construction and one could even see the outline of the Bahrain Fort from several kilometers away. Over the years, rapid development has ensured the country’s skyline has undergone a sea change, particularly in the Seef and Manama area.
At some stage, I hope to “show” the pictures that I had taken then and compare those with the present-day snaps.
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Top View
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.
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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.
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