Now, amazingly, it's my turn:
I found this photo while going through some old back up CDs. The date on it is 2002, but I believe - due to "HP" in the title - that it may date from summer 2001, as that is the only time I had an HP camera. I am not even 100% certain I took this photo, I don't remember taking it, but it was in a folder with some others of former colleagues that I definitely did take. You can click the photo to see a much bigger version.
I am not sure exactly where I took this from, but it looks like the Dusit. If I get a chance, I plan to take a comparison shot some time. Or if anyone else lives in the area and can take one, please do.
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Know what's even more shocking?? There's no traffic on Shk Zayed Rd!!
love it: history
Know what's even more shocking?? There's no traffic on Shk Zayed Rd!!
I know! One wouldn't normally expect to see SZR looking like this except very late at night, or maybe early morning on Friday. From the shadows I estimate that this is around mid morning, but I can't be certain.
love it: history
In just six years. Kind of scary, really.
In just six years. Kind of scary, really
It is. The mind boggles on what another six years will do.
(Great photo!)
It took 35 mins tops - say from Etisalat office in SHJ, to Emirates towers via Al Itihad road thru rush hour - this was in 2000. I hear it takes a day and a 1/2 today?
I remember when friends and I used to drive to AUH and on the way back, as soon as we see Hard Rock cafe - we'd be like - great, almost there (Dubai, just a few kms more). Today, (if you are driving towards AUH) Hard Rock cafe perhaps is the beginning of Dubai.
Don't know if it's all scary, perhaps overwhelming I think.
I remember when we first moved here (2001) and going out to Home Centre at the Oasis centre and I asked why would anyone put a mall out here in the middle of nowhere? Things change!
When the Dubai Community Theatre was first proposed at the Mall o't'Emirates, I was not alone in wondering who in their right mind would want to go out to the boondocks to see a show.
How times change.
I remember when we first moved here (2001) and going out to Home Centre at the Oasis centre and I asked why would anyone put a mall out here in the middle of nowhere? Things change!
I remember the "Souq Al Nakheel" hoardings that were up for years, quite literally in the middle of desert wasteland Finally it became the Mall of the Emirates (which I think is a far less imaginative title) and the wasteland is now Al Barsha.
I remember when ever we used to go to abu dhabi for the weekend, on the way back we used to look out for Dubai Trade centre as a mark that we were close to getting back home....Now...well we have the Burj.... :S
SD, I agree with your prediction about the time, it is around mid mourning (the sun being to the east-south east)...would be interesting to see how it looks now form the same place!
Great photo!
i know it's urban.. but this is BEAUTIFUL.. can't believe how a pic in the 2000's actually reminds me of the "old days"!!
ya habibi ya jazz.. i hope no one has to go thru mourning anytime soon.. not the mid- or the full- type!
When are they going to build an artificial mountain range in Dubai? It could be used for skiing or mountain climbing, there could be all sorts of artificial mountain lions and other exotic creatures -- that would be a great tourist attraction.
Shadows, yes. And reflections on the glass window. Isn't that a head and shoulders outline I see in the upper lefthand corner? Could that be a clue to who took the photo?
Great photo, SD!
There used to be a time when going all the way from a tiny parking lot in Abu Shagara to Wafi wouldn't take more than 30 minutes. Argh, the traffic nowadays!
SD, when you've lived a full 10 years in Dubai, I think you should write a book. Your wit combined with your great vocabulary and some nice pictures forming a timeline - it'd sell big overseas, if not in Dubai [*cough*censorship*cough*].. just something to consider.
ah Bu Jassem (la7e3na 3la al da3seh?) :)))
I guess I meant that the photo was taken at a mourning-dove-eye view..;)
(a diplomatic extrication of ass)
SD, when you've lived a full 10 years in Dubai, I think you should write a book.
I'm currently writing an exceedingly poor detective thriller set in Dubai, which I will probably sell online in hard copy and possibly electronic format if it gets on the banned list. Frankly it deserves to be banned already for its appallingness, and it's nowhere near finished yet.
i have seen the draft of SD's book, and can promise it's everything you would hope for! intrigue, salacious Dubai scandal (much with a ring of truth) and that very unique sense of humour. I highly recommend it!
SD, can I get a draft of your book, I can't wait till you finish
DubaiJazz... :)
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