Nikon D300

Wheee! Finally I've gotten myself a new camera. A D300 with a 18-200 VR. Still waiting for the real glass, the 70-200 f/2.8 VR and the 14-24 f/2.8 to arrive...

Tunnel

The pedestrian tunnel under the Deira side exit of Maktoum Bridge.

Birdies

A lot of seagulls in front of the twin towers of Marriot Apartments.

Midday nap

It sure is nice to take a quick nap in the afternoon.

ESPN X Games

The ESPN X games held at Festival City last weekend was some kind of showjumping with motorbikes. At least it looked like that to me, but I'm no sports fan so I might be totally wrong. :-P

Car park indicators

In this parking garage at Festival City there's a light in the ceiling above each parking space that turns red or green depending on if it's occupied or not. This allows you to see the free spaces from a long distance. Really neat function!

U-disp

As a hobby I design and develop electronic stuff. This is my latest project, an electronic information display that you connect to the USB port on your computer and send information like page hits, number of unread mails or cpu load to. For more information go to www.u-disp.com

Flowers

There are a lot of flowers in Dubai.

Song & dance

Traditional Arabic singing performed at the UAE National Day in the Creek Park.

Stormy weather

Windy, dark clouds and sunset. It would be a nice backdrop for a scary movie.

Christmas decorations

Clock tower R/A

Just a snapshot of the Clock Tower in Deira.

Redbull Flugtag

The Redbull Flugtag was held in the Creek Park this friday. We got am amazingly good view of the event even if the park had 30000 visitors.

Santa Claus

Santa Claus or Jultomten as he is called in Sweden at the Norwegian Seamens Center in Dubai.

Water leak

It seems that they dug a bit too deep at this construction site between Al Maktoum Bridge and the Star Boutique building.

The Swedish Embassy

The embassy is locate on the 12th floor Al Otaiba Tower in Abu Dhabi. That's the middle building it this picture.

Driving simulator

This is a driving simulator at the Dubai Motor Show. A standard car on a testbed with ventilation for the exhaust, three large projection screens. Man, it was really noisy when someone was using it!

Bugatti Veyron

The Bugatti Veyron with a price tag of $1.3 was not the most eyecatching car at the DubaiMotor Show.

Dirty car

I found this note from the municipality on the windshield of a dirty car.

Under the authority of Legal Order No 11 of 2003 you are hereby requested to remove the vehicle machinery as it is disfiguring the public view and beauty of the city. Kindly ensure that necessary action is taken within 2 weeks from the date of this notice.

In clear text: You car is too dirty. Clean it now or we will impound it.

:-)

My office

This is the Dubai Concorde building at Al Maktoum Street. My office is at the narrow edge on the 9'th floor.