I thought of taking a much clichéd “last sunset of the year” photograph. It really may be so as I may not be able to get the sunset from near the Al Qasbah Canal, next year. The skyline would probably be just skyscrapers then.
A tea festival is on at the Al Qasbah. I was a little too early, as I couldn’t get a cup of tea. The kiosks marked India, Sri Lanka and UK had not switched on their water boilers.
I managed to get a flock of sea gulls, flying into the sunset.
I took these pictures this morning. The sky was filled with clouds. As the sun climbed, the clouds turned from grey to fiery red before changing to white.
There were a lot of sea gulls flying around, but only came in front of the camera.
I attached an old semi fish eye lens on my digital compact camera, seems to work.
Here I added a couple of old filters with the semi fish eye lens.
The old Sharjah area, is being rebuilt, as the Heritage area. The buildings are built in the way it was built for centuries, using coral and mortar.
Coral piles used in rebuilding the heritage area
Close up of a coral building block
A newly saw cut coral block. A naturally insulated building block.
This building is on the Sharjah Cornish. Workers clean the spherical portion by hanging from the structures that moves around while they clean. Not a job for the faint hearted.
King Faizal Street is usually clogged. But when the traffic does move, it is just streaks of light.
I saw this red dragonfly perched on wiper blade of a car. In Sharjah, a lot of workers suppliment their incomes by washing cars. Invariably, just to indicate that they have washed a car, they leave the wiper sticking up.
I went in got my camera, not expecting the dragonfly to be around, but he hadn't moved. I stuck the camera in as close as could, about 200mm, took the pictures on macro setting. 
The dragonfly did flap his wings and stare at me angrily with his large multiple eyes, but did not fly away. I took more than 60 pictures and he was still on the wiper when I left.
Justin Lopes (left) held an exhibition of his coin collection at the Indian Association, Sharjah, in October. Justin is the holder of the Guinness Record for his collection of coins from most number of countries.
Some of the multi coloured coins in his collection.
This building has been ready for demolition for the last fifteen years. So finally some one has found some use for it.
The graffiti is good, in parts, but the artists need to come back and finish the work. At present it looks half baked.
The guy,below, recycling cartons, has also found the abandoned place useful.
