Wednesday 2 February 2011

Contrasts with Muscat 3 - # 28/2011


Sultan Quaboos Mosque, Muscat.

3 comments:

  1. Nice photo! I really like the sense of scale. (Have these guys got marble to burn?) Dead curious to see what the Kingston equivalent is going to be..

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  2. This reminded me of something when I made the initial comment, and I realise now it's the watercolours David Roberts made of the Middle East. Often he used figures like this to impart scale.

    Here's some examples -

    http://www.worldgallery.co.uk/gallery/David-Roberts-1.html

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  3. Mmmh I like the mosque here better than its Richmond counterpart.

    What a grand monument !

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