The man said:
The Bahrain Experience is home to (almost) everything about Bahrain, visually that is.
The intention is to share these lovely islands with the rest of the world, show them (and ourselves of course) what we have here, our culture, traditions, people, everyday life, food, industry, architecture, history, flora, fauna, parties and just about everything else that other people might find interesting about Bahrain.
Please don’t post personal pictures though, or pictures of friends etc, they’ll only end up in the bucket.
Think of what YOU would find interesting, or what a tourist might find interesting and post those kind of pictures…
Thanks guys and keep your shutters going in Bahrain!
I’m beginning to like Flickr more and more every day I have something to do with it. Even though they have been experiencing tremendous load and growing pains over the last few weeks, it is still one of the best ideas on the web today. And completely unlike me where I tend to hoard everything and want to have complete control over my things anyway, I’m willing to host all of my pictures on Flickr, at least this way when I screw up this site, the pictures are safe!!
As you’ve read above, I’ve created a group on Flickr to which you are all invited. If you have any pictures of Bahrain please post them there, it doesn’t matter if you are a paid member or not, there is no restriction on group photos uploads. I would be interested in anything that matches the objective of the group as described above, I would be particularly interested also in historic photographs if you have them. Please share.
Be warned however that I will be merciless in deleting crap off this group! From time to time I will go through the uploads and delete any picture that *I* feel does not belong there. This is the only way I think of creating and maintaining a quality photographic repository, especially at this formative stage.
I have uploaded 115 pictures of my own “stream”, and I know that I am going to whittle those down quite a bit. I don’t want a “journalistic” album, I want a quality album to be created.
Ah, do be courageous please. Notwithstanding my threats above, do upload pictures as much as you like (as long as you think they are relevant) and please don’t be offended if they are deleted. Just keep uploading and when you see your picture sticks in that group, consider yourself fortunate and give yourself a huge pat on the back, because not everyone will be able to have the pleasure of having their photograph in it!
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While I’m on a roll… I also started the Flickr Pitbabes Group! So if you have any pitbabe picture (non copyrighted please) you can now share them with the whole world, just upload them into the Pitbabes group…. this is fun! :”)
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I will have a look and post my photos of Bahrain 🙂 I went back over the Winter and took many photographs tourists or potential tourists may find interesting.
Eid Mubarak Mahmood!
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that’s the spirit! thank you very much and Eid Mubarak to you too…
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I have avoided using Flickr before now. Mainly because I like having control of my photos on my site. But in the spirit of The Bahrain Experience I have signed up and am (as I write this) uploading some photos…as soon as I figure out how to add them to the group photo thing you all will see them!
Chris
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Excellent Chris! You won’t regret it (I hope!!)
Now join The Bahrain Experience group, then once your upload is done, click on the “Organise” link at the top, then “Groups” and start dragging and dropping the images into the group well.
Let me know should you need any assistance.
And thanks!
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Alright Mahmood, you’ve convinced me… I’ve got started, but I probably won’t have too many pics until after Eid break. Nice idea!
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Take your time. We’re not in a hurry.
I’ve been struggling to crystalise what I want from this group, and how would I describe it to others. I think I’ve finally decided what it is and what it should to, and have updated the about section:
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mahmood what pictures do you want and do not want , only nice pretty images of bahrain are real down to earth actual portraits of what normal people see everyday. driving to work and around the backroads of Bahrain?
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I don’t want a “journal” or “moblog” kind of pictures for this group. There is another Bahrain group in there that you can use for that.
What I want is “glossies” if you know what I mean. That of course can be of a man enjoying his hookah showing his lined face, smoke billowing out of his mouth and nostrils as he is smiling, showing his stained teeth with a couple missing, his ghutra is plain without an ugal to hold it in place. The man is sitting on one of those bench seats we find in old coffee-shops around town, or outside houses in some villages. The picture has very good quality that can describe all of these things, most cameraphones can’t.
You can post pictures of demonstrations: the girl holding up the placard is very angry, spit is flying out of her mouth as she’s shouting her message and with bunched fist, punches the sky to demand that she too is heard. The demonstration was for women’s rights and better women’s prison conditions.
You can also post a picture of a bulbul coming back to the nest with an insect in its mouth to feed its chicks. The nest is in a “mohammadiah” rose bush which grew in an unkempt palm-grove with its boundary-walls collapsed. The picture is in black and white.
It’s another horrific accident, bodies are lined on the pavement covered in their own ghutras and hijabs while the ambulancemen struggle to save a 5-year-old child still trapped in the wrecked car. You’re showing this scene which also has the perpetrator of the accident in the background being cuffed by the police. He is unharmed. He was drunk and speeding in a shiny new fast car given to him by daddy. He looks through the camera lens defiently as if to say: I’ll be out in 5 minutes. This was at night, a flash photograph showing the stark reality of the accident. The blood on the corpses on the pavement is so red, you can almost feel its viscosity.
Children are playing “sakkoon” in front of their house. You can almost hear their laughter and banter. Their clothes are so gay and they are so happy and unencumbered with life’s prejudices. The background is the wall of their house which was cement sprayed, very rough texture and in it is one of those windows which is latticed with square pieces of glass and real iron, rather than the modern aluminium kind. The window frame and iron-work is painted in sky blue, the wall is unpainted grey. The leading girl skips over the stone and her little abaya flutters behind her shoing her orange and purple dress underneath while the 3 other girls are clapping encouragement. Her grandmother is looking through the window with a weathered smile on her face, partly covered by the pulled abaya across her face.
Get the picture?
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That was a bit graphic… let me try again:
1. quality
2. quality
3. quality
Quality can be translated into the physical quality of the photograph, or the subject matter. It is a very subjective judgement and I don’t relish that responsibility. I just hope I won’t lose too many friends doing this thing!
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M –
A review of the Nokia 6630? How goes it?
I am very happy with my 7610.
smiles, jen ;o)