So last week I flew off for some visits to our project locations again, changing planes in Doha. This meant we flew over some parts of Iraq I’ve come to know a bit, and I’m reasonably confident that the city you see here by night is Erbil, though the in-flight map didn’t identify enough cities to confirm this hypothesis.
A video showing the full range of things we could see in the village of Soran, below the mountain that has Korek resort with the chair lift. Thought we’d save this as our very last image from the most recent Iraq trip, so you could experience how dramatic it is more directly 🙂
With mountains can come waterfalls, so I’ve saved for the end these last two shots of the lovely waterfall we visited down in the valley below the road you see in the photo below. This particular series will now go dormant until I am again close enough to anything I can legitimately call a mountain to take appealing photos. A few trips expected in late August and September might conceivably make that possible…
Last views of this mountaintop resort village north of Erbil, which we first showed you in post that went up three months ago. There’ll still be a couple more posts from that visit, but we’ve nearly emptied that particular folder…
I realized with some chagrin that my last “Mountains” entry was an exact duplicate of the one immediately before it, so I’ve now gone back and replaced that duplicated photo with one that I nearly used for this entry. John, you’d commented about whether it was a road or a river down in the valley for that last post, but hadn’t smacked me upside the head for reposting the exact same photo. Thanks 🙂 I’ll blame the lapse on moving pressures.
Still working our way through the dramatic mountains of northern Iraq, and wondering whether I’ll manage to get to anything else that can be legitimately called a mountain in time to continue this particular series once I’ve posted the few that still remain 🙂
I’ve been leaning on these cascade shots from the mountains north of Erbil to sustain most of my “Country Canals” posts for more than long enough, so herewith the last of those photos as a means to spur myself further outside the city limits of Amsterdam to where I might again photograph something that could more legitimately be described as a country canal in the near future, or risk needing to let this series sleep until I do so 🙂
Since the last sequence celebrated the northern summer at its peak, I decided we’d give you a serious change of pace by celebrating snow-capped peaks in those lovely mountains of northern Iraq that we’ve been showing you. It might also provide a wee bit of mental coolness to anyone sweating through a lovely but hot long northern summer day :-). These won’t be your last views of those dramatic mountains in this series, but they’re just about all of them in which I could discern at least a dusting of snow somewhere in the frame of the photo. Ah, and one note: to put such large photo galleries up with an interesting layout, I use a different interface which the blog’s host has re-allowed us to use on occasion. However, if you’re viewing this on a small screen it’s quite likely your interface will mess it up pretty thoroughly, so if you’re only seeing one or two photos, try again when you’re back on a larger-sized computer screen if you’re interested. Enjoy.
I hope and expect to be back in some fully-legit villages closer to home by the end of the month, so perhaps we’ll soon be able to show you some lovely views of green midsummer northern-European village life. In the meantime, we’ll work through our shots of the lovely tourist villages and resorts in the impressive mountains of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.
Since the last sequence celebrated the northern summer at its peak, I decided we’d give you a serious change of pace by celebrating snow-capped peaks in those lovely mountains of northern Iraq that we’ve been showing you. It might also provide a wee bit of mental coolness to anyone sweating through a lovely but hot long northern summer day :-). These won’t be your last views of those dramatic mountains in this series, but they’re just about all of them in which I could discern at least a dusting of snow somewhere in the frame of the photo. Ah, and one note: to put such large photo galleries up with an interesting layout, I use a different interface which the blog’s host has re-allowed us to use on occasion. However, if you’re viewing this on a small screen it’s quite likely your interface will mess it up pretty thoroughly, so if you’re only seeing one or two photos, try again when you’re back on a larger-sized computer screen if you’re interested. Enjoy.
(so much world, so little time....) 