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Food & Drinks Kuwait Photography

Dean & Deluca Pictures

A reader of the blog sent me pictures of Dean & Deluca so if you haven’t been there yet click on continue below to check the place out. By the way, if you’re a salami fan I think they’ve got the best salami in Kuwait… but thats probably because they don’t have ANY competition!




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Information Interesting Kuwait Photography

Pictures of the Wataniya Airways plane

Wataniya Airways Plane

Some Contrast posted some pictures of the plane a couple of days ago but I couldn’t until I got approval from Wataniya Airways since they are my client. The above and below are pictures of the plane parked in Toulouse, France where Airbus plant is located. Hopefully next month I am going to be in Toulouse for the official unveiling and take some of my own photos but for now here are some of the photos taken by Airbus. The Kuwait Towers are proudly displayed on the tail of the plane and I think it actually looks pretty good. Definitely much better than the new MEA design which I HATE.




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Movies Photography

The Godfather Family Album

Godfather

This is a new and lavish limited edition book with tons of pictures from behind the scenes of the movie Godfather. The book is limited to 1000 copies and they are all signed. Problem is it costs KD190! [Amazon Link]

Here is a link with information about the book. [Link]




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Photography

Italy Under Water

Venice Flood

Great shots of Venice’s deepest flood in 22 years. [Link]




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Geek Photography

Star Wars in the City

Urban Star Wars

Cedric Delsaux is a photographer that is famous for his Star Wars series and his latest portrays Star Wars characters in urban environments. Really cool stuff, follow the link to see some more pictures. [Pictures]

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Personal Photography

Where I was today morning

FireTruck

I took this picture a few hours ago.




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Food & Drinks Photography

w/ cheeseburgers

with cheeseburgers

The strangest photoset on flickr that I’ve seen. The set contains pictures of random objects on top of cheeseburgers… [Link]




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50s to 90s Kuwait Photography

The good old days

Drive through cinema

I just found this incredible book about Kuwait dating back to 1975. It has a ton of great pictures which I will scan every now and then and post over here. The caption under the picture above reads:

Kuwait also enjoys some of the more sophisticated pleasures of the West, and even the Far West. Here, for example, is a drive-in cinema in the open air not far from the city. In order to enable you to watch a film in comfort without moving from your seat, two large “pumps” introduce into your car the sound track of the film being shown and the air-conditioning which is essential at the height of the summer. All you have to do is to watch.

It sucks that no one has invented the time machine yet!




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Information Kuwait Photography

Pictures from the Kuwait Stock Exchange

KSE

Back when I was taking pictures for my Miskan project I passed by the Kuwait Stock Exchange and ended up taking some cool pictures. Since the stock market is a popular topic at the moment I figured I would upload all the pictures I had taken that day so people can download them and use them. I’ve gotten a lot of emails from magazines and newspapers asking for the hi-res pictures so here they are all compressed into one zip file.

Download stock market pictures (4.8MB)

In return, please credit the blog if you end up using any of the photos.




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Kuwait Photography

Kuwait 1950, People and Places

Kuwait 1950s

Just found this interesting photoset on Flickr which contains photographs that were taken in Kuwait around 1950. All the pictures were scanned by David C. Foster from the photograph album of Francis Hadden Andrus. The picture above is of Yousef Ahmad Al-Ghanim on the left and Tom G. Mohney on the right. [Pictures]

Update: In case you missed it the shot below was featured on SomeContrast.com awhile back. Its a picture that dates back to 1956 and is of the first Porsche in Kuwait. The owner Murad Behbahani is sitting behind the wheel, and his brothers Mohammed and Redha Behbahani next to him. In a way it’s kinda similar to the shot above. [Link]

First Porsche




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Interesting Photography Travel

Photos from Chernobyl

Chernobyl

Seems you can take a tour of Chernobyl and get pretty up close to the plant that exploded. This guy went on the tour and took a ton of pictures which you can check out here. Looks freaky. [Pictures]

If you want to tour Chernobyl here is the [Link]




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50s to 90s Kuwait Photography

Vintage Kuwaiti Police Pictures

Kuwaiti Police

I just found a post in the coolq8y forum that contains vintage pictures of the Kuwaiti police force. Click the link for more pictures. [Link]




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Photography Sports

More Olympics

More Olympics

Some of these pictures are just ridiculous! I already downloaded the Olympics opening to watch but after seeing these pictures I am thinking of holding off until I find a proper HD version. [Link]




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Photography Strange

10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns

Ghost Town

Very eerie pictures of previously inhabited cities that have now been completely abandoned. [Link]




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Information Kuwait Photography

Al-Farsi Kites Team

Picture by M.Ashkanani

The other day I posted a video of kites being flown in the Kuwaiti desert. According to a reader the kites all belong to Al-Farsi Kites Team who also have the largest kite in the world. They have an official website and a flickr group with a lot of pictures including my favorites the Winnie Poo like bear and the squid like creatures. Here are the links:

Official Al-Farsi Kites Team Site
Al-Farsi Kites Flickr Pool

The beautiful picture above was taken by M.Ashkanani