Tag: Architecture
Beams and The Sky
Mundane Monday challenge is created to find beauty in almost everything.
The challenge is simple. Find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.
Architectural Delight 1 – Wordless Wednesday
Clean form, curves, and lines. Beautiful structure.
Dubai Canal Boardwalk – Echoes of my Neighbourhood
This city is constantly changing its aesthetics, adding new attractions and relaxation points each day. The new Dubai canal boardwalk offers a beautiful waterside walkway that runs about 3.2 km each way.
We went there on a Saturday night there were loads of families were out for a stroll, several joggers pounding the pavement, selfie-takers indulging themselves, people sitting around chit-chatting away, boats with happy party passengers cruising up and down the canal.
Interestingly, there are USB chargers installed in the streetlights so you can charge your phone for all those snaps. Two of the pedestrian bridges are open and the views are amazing.
Some work is still ongoing to turn the place green, however, the total ambiance like the French would say ‘C’est Magnifique.’
Oh, my word! Lady Lee knows how to lay a table that would make you drool and the snowy shots of Munich are simply enchanting. They look like postcards. Take a peek 🙂
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Wordless Wednesday
Cityscape Dubai – Echoes Of My Neighbourhood.
On Thursdays, I share pictures about ‘Echos of my Neighbourhood.
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Cityscape Dubai is the largest and most influential real estate exhibition in the Middle East/Gulf region. This years’ exhibition concludes today, 8th September and over 300 companies from the UAE and abroad showcased their ambitious and beautiful building projects.
It’s a key event during which developers, architects, investors, real estate professionals, city building authorities and interested citizens gather in one place. Investors get to buy properties off plan or almost completed and resell or rent to turn a good profit.
I have always believed in property investment, but I am not yet fortunate enough to afford the steep cost of investing in property over here. Who knows, maybe when I sign that bestseller of mine, then I may just be rolling in enough wad to invest, but hey, it doesn’t hurt to look and know what’s available out here.
What I marvel at is the precision and beauty of the architectural designs on display. There was so much to look at that I could barely get around in my hours of attending the exhibition.
Lady Lee takes us briefly to India through her doors 🙂
I love seeing where people are visiting or staying and would be glad to see your neighbourhood.
Have a good weekend ahead. Just a day to go 😉
Jacqueline
Ambition – Everyday beautiful people 96
“There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.” W.E.B. Dubois
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“I would like to be an architect,” she told me in her soft melodious voice and I listened.
“I am starting my course at the University this September and I am so glad.”
‘You see, I am from Yemen and it’s not easy for us as women. There’s a lot of gender disparity,’ she continued in her lilting tone
I could see the shining ambition in her eyes and the beautiful smile on her clear pretty face and I felt such pleasure just knowing that she’s getting the opportunity to pursue her passion and ambition.
The saying that when you raise and train a woman, you raise a village, a town, a nation came to my mind.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Break it down!
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I wonder what’s wrong with it?
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Below is my first Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
I hear you in my thoughts…
your words of wisdom,
of love and encouragement…
they are etched upon my soul.
They keep me warm.
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*an excerpt from my poem*
Bend It, Straighten It, Twist It…
I totally curbed my zeal in going photo bombing with today’s photo 101 theme ‘Architecture and Monochrome’ in a city that is an architectural delight.
Buildings sprout like mushroom in this place and each with it’s loveliness in intricacy or even simplicity.
The sprinkling weather of today, curbed my clicky fingers delight, so, I have a mix of new and old.
Some were tweaked in black and white for comparison and in as much as I like both, I think I will naturally gravitate to the bright colours like a happy butterfly 🙂
Big Things and My Haunches…
What an interesting theme we have today for photo 101 class; ‘Big and Point of view.’
The title brings out the naughtiness in me, but I shall leave it at that 😉
There’s no problem finding big things around here. A whole lot of stuff comes in huge sizes especially the buildings, so I felt, easy-peasy, let me go and get some shots.
Where the trick lay is in the POV that asked us to crouch or lie on the ground and get some interesting angles of big things 😉
I was just a few yards short of my husband thinking that I have lost my marbles with my dodgy moves to get interesting shots and asking him to stop every few meters *he was almost at his tethers end when I felt that I had enough material, besides he had to go for important money matters 😉
I also raised a couple of Arabian eyebrows with my squatting and crouching like a Tigress about to spring a surprise 🙂
All in all, it’s been a fun assignment. I just hope we won’t have to use parachutes next.
My haunches received some good squats today 😉
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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