Full length standing portrait of ... Size:large

Full length standing portrait of ... Size:largeFull length standing portrait of a nakhoda at Dubai Creek. An older man with a grey beard stands on a wall in front of Dubai Creek. He is a nakhoda (captain) of a dhow (sailboat) in Dubai. He wears leather sandals on his feet and a light coloured waistcoat over his thobe (long shirt). Behind him two young boys play in the sand beside two beached dhow. In the far distance one and two storey houses sit along the opposite bank. Due to the nature of these

The dunes have low sides which rise into small crescent-shaped crests

and in the distance beyond the mountain Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) rises above the horizon

made from date palm fronds

The boy stands facing forward

In the foreground a line of footprints marks a curve across the slope of a dune

View over the tops of tall buildings from a rooftop in the city of Shibam

In the background large palm trees grow on the far side of a dry gravel bed

scattered vegetation grows across a rolling plain of sand

soft volcanic tufa in which thousands of artificial caves have been dug by a preceding race

while its head is turned towards the far background

t is flat and calm

Close up profile portrait of a thoroughbred (female) Wahiba camel