Photo Gallery : Siwa Oasis, Egypt - Wide Landscape

Starting now, and that’s right now people. Right here and right now. Well, not right here as the photo is a little way down, but it’s almost right here, nothing that Im going to argue the toss over frankly. But moving on I am presenting a new series of images taken during a 3 month trip round and through all of Egypt.

This was no typical back-packing trip, I purposefully planed to visit more remote areas, rather than tread the well trodden rucksack way. I was well rewarded with some wonderful photographs, of which I will be showing some of my more memorable moments. Sweet memories…

Starting with Siwa Oasis, just North of the Black and White Desert but just as far East as you can get to the Libian border.

All these images are linked to my Flickr Portfolio, so please feel free to nose around over there.

One of my favourites. Am sure you can make out the lone donkey and cart in the middle of the salt plains, with the lake in the background. Sadly I did not have my 18mm wide angle, if I had this would have shown the true vastness of this landscape, as it was I had my multi universal purpose do it everything 50-200mm lens. Only so much of this stuff you can take on a trip like this.

But it worked well and I still was able to get some telling shots.

The image above was taken at sunset over the most amazing natural salt lake I have seen, with these amazing rock features jutting out for as far as the eye can see. The 3 people were some travellers that I met at Siwa Oasis and we eventually travelled togeter for another week, hiring a jeep (below) to travel through the Black & White desert.

Not a deep lake by any means, usually found it to be about waist height. But the issue was the heat of the water, or more specifically, the heat of the lake bed. Often in places too hot to stand, so constant hopping around was required. Or you could of course take the easy way out - just floating. Rather than sinking below the surface, you would find yourself almost just floating on your back with the majority of your body on top of the water rather than underneath.

Most relaxing watching the sun set with the cool evening breeze and the warmth of the lake water.

Travelling through the desert, on real desert sand no less, with not a track in site for miles. Real off roading. Often going a little too fast when hitting the ridge of a sand dune with some hilarious consequences.

A truly wonderful experience. More images come in due course.

Please feel free to leave me comments or any remarks about these photos, I always love to hear what other people think about photography.