Waiting!

Another trip and hours of waiting at the airports. This was shot while waiting at the King Fahad Airport at Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

Moto G Plus. B&W conversion on Snapseed.

The Selfie

A couple lost in taking selfies under a giant teddy bear at the Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar.

Nikon D7000 | Sigma 10-20 mm

The window cleaner

A window cleaner at the New Delhi IGI Airport, T3.

Nikon D7000 | Nikon 18-200 mm VR

Reflections

Reflections. Terminal 3, IGI Airport, New Delhi.

Panasonic G1 | Lumix 14-45 mm Vario | B&W conversion in camera

A wet day at the airport

14 June 2013

Taken at the new Calcutta Airport Terminal 2 while waiting for the Jet shuttle to Delhi. It had rained heavily the day before and it was raining when I arrived at the airport.

This is an Air India aircraft being pushed back from the aerobridge for takeoff.

Panasonic G1 | Lumix 14-45mm Vario | Conversion to B&W on Lightroom and Nik Silver Efex Pro

Gotcha!

A flier takes a picture of an airplane taking off at the Calcutta T2 Domestic Terminal with his camera phone.

Panasonic G1 | Lumix 14-45mm Vario | B&W conversion in Nik Silver Efex 2

Quiet contemplation

Saturday morning 2 AM. A Buddhist monk sits quietly staring out at the Thai Airways flight that has just landed to travel back to Thailand among the cacophony of passengers at the new airport terminal at the Calcutta International Airport.

This was taken on the 20th of April 2013 with the Panasonic G1 and the Lumix 14-45mm Vario. Conversion to B&W on LR 2.7.

Photo session on the tarmac

A group of footballers have a quick photo session while boarding their aircraft at the Doha International Airport, Qatar.

Panasonic G1 ~ Lumix 14-45mm Vario

Waiting

Travelers wait for their flights at the King Fahd International Airport at Dammam, KSA.

Panasonic  G1 | Lumix 14-45mm Vario

Lines in the sand

No, these are not the famed Nazca lines.

They are highways, snaking across the billiard board flat desert landscape of Saudi Arabia. More precisely, this is the connector that connects King Fahad International Airport, Dammam, with the main highway connecting Al-Jubail with Damman.

Panasonic G1 | Lumix 14-45mm Vario

The Digital Divide - 2

1.15 AM. Calcutta Airport. International departures.

Two ladies reading while waiting for the Thai flight to Bangkok, the older one with the Kindle and the younger one with the hard copy of a P G Wodehouse novel.

Panasonic G1 | Lumix 14-45 mm Vario

Homeward bound

Shot from the aircraft on my flight home as the aircraft turns and aligns for the take-off run. The long runway seems to run right to the horizon.

Panasonic G1 | 14-45mm

Dreams of home . . .

A traveler watches through the plate glass windows as a plane takes off at the Doha International Airport, Qatar.

Panasonic G1 | Lumix 14-45mm

Dammam-Dubai-Kolkata

Some photos from my recent trip home. Cramped seats, lousy food and an excruciating six hour layover at Dubai airport summed up the flight home.

Dammam Airport, KSA through the dirty window of the Emirates Boeing 777-300 ER for the Dammam-Dubai connection

The Irish Pub @ Dubai Airport

A pub, a business class lounge and a smoking room - the three most important things!

The Irish Pub - another shot

Two shots from the waiting area of Gate 122 (DXB)

The business end of the Dubai Airport

Leaving Dubai

Dubai from the air

Dubai from the air as the plane gains altitude

Somewhere over India - the sunrise

The sun rises from beneath the clouds

The wing !

Coming into Calcutta - you can see the 2nd Hooghly Bridge next to the engine nacelle

Over Calcutta

The final bank before touchdown

Homeward Bound - Pictures from the aircraft and the airports

Homeward bound . . .

Cairo Airport . . . a quaint little airport

Smoking area and eating area are the same...no gas chambers . . . making it the most smoker friendly airport I've seen.

From the aircraft window.
A view of the tarmac. A Quantas flight has just landed.

It just occurred that Egypt is mostly desert.

 

Just sand and sand

 

 

Over the Red Sea

Lamborghini at the Bahrain Duty Free.

Bahrain Duty Free - on seeing the prices I wondered if the duty was included in the price. The Canon EOS 400D was priced at a whopping $1459 US, nearly 1.5x the price in Calcutta. Add to that the duty one has to pay in the airport. You can possibly pick up a Nikon D300 at the end price.

A Porsche at the Bahrain Duty Free

A Courvoisier VS Cognac was $50 or thereabouts at Bahrain. Needless to say, the cheapest deal was at the Chennai International Airport - approx 40% cheaper than Bahrain.