Egypt
The Northern Advocate (Peter de Graaf)
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- Photo Of The Sphinx Minus The Pyramids At Giza
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) A really rather good photograph of the Great Sphinx. The fog has completely eliminated the pyramids behind it. Here's the caption: I had such an amazing experience this morning at the pyramids that I had to share it with...
- Site Management: Giza
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) The site of Giza is one of the most visited sites in Egypt. Everyone who comes to Egypt visits the great pyramids that dominate the landscape here. In the past, the site was crowded, cars were everywhere and also people selling...
- Travel: A Visit To Cairo
http://www.gulf-news.com/explore/Hotspots/10113147.html"I was perched seven feet above ground. And the fear of a bruising fall made me shudder. Added to that was the terror of being stomped on by Solomon, a gangly camel that seemed to weigh almost a tonne...
- Complaint Re Teaching That Israelites Built Pyramids
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3370258,00.html Head of the SCA, Zahi Hawass "has Hawass filed an official complaint to the Egyptian attorney general of Egypt against a Cairo high school for teaching the students that it was the Israelites who...
- Gerster's Aerial Photography
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/atoz/article_916727.phpA new book about Georg Gerster's aerial photography has been published. Although Gester's work is global, he started out in Egypt and Nubia: "In Gerster's recent book, The Past...
Egypt
Snapping pictures of the Pyramids
The Northern Advocate (Peter de Graaf)
It's not just what you know, it's who you know.
And knowing the right people certainly helped when a tiny Whangarei firm was hired to take aerial photos of the Egyptian pyramids.
Lawrence and Elaine Ross, of Kokopu, are the Northland franchise holders for aerial photography company Skyworks.
Mostly they use a blimp - a 6m-long helium-filled balloon, like the Hindenburg in miniature - to photograph homes for real estate adverts.
The biggest thing they've photographed so far is the Kerikeri Bypass, the fancy new road that diverts traffic away from New Zealand's oldest buildings.
But, come April 2, they'll be snapping history on an altogether different scale when they float their blimp and remote-controlled camera over the 4500-year-old pyramids at Giza, Egypt.
Their unusual business opportunity came about when former Whangarei man Martin Van Rijswijk - now principal of the New Cairo British International School in the Egyptian capital - was looking for someone to photograph the school's 30th anniversary celebrations at the pyramids.
See the above page for more.
- Photo Of The Sphinx Minus The Pyramids At Giza
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) A really rather good photograph of the Great Sphinx. The fog has completely eliminated the pyramids behind it. Here's the caption: I had such an amazing experience this morning at the pyramids that I had to share it with...
- Site Management: Giza
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) The site of Giza is one of the most visited sites in Egypt. Everyone who comes to Egypt visits the great pyramids that dominate the landscape here. In the past, the site was crowded, cars were everywhere and also people selling...
- Travel: A Visit To Cairo
http://www.gulf-news.com/explore/Hotspots/10113147.html"I was perched seven feet above ground. And the fear of a bruising fall made me shudder. Added to that was the terror of being stomped on by Solomon, a gangly camel that seemed to weigh almost a tonne...
- Complaint Re Teaching That Israelites Built Pyramids
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3370258,00.html Head of the SCA, Zahi Hawass "has Hawass filed an official complaint to the Egyptian attorney general of Egypt against a Cairo high school for teaching the students that it was the Israelites who...
- Gerster's Aerial Photography
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/atoz/article_916727.phpA new book about Georg Gerster's aerial photography has been published. Although Gester's work is global, he started out in Egypt and Nubia: "In Gerster's recent book, The Past...