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  • Cairo, Egypt - The downtown McDonalds delivers by Vespa scooter.
    McDonalds delivers, Cairo01.JPG
  • EGYPT, 2000 - Egyptian Western desert, Bedouin guide leads a camel caravan on a trek along the Dharb el Dakhla track from Farafra Oasis to Dakhla Oasis through the dunes of the sand sea. Sun plays though patchy cloud to form bands of light across gentle dunes.
    Nesbitt_Egypt_Dakhla_11-09-exb.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - View over Cairo to the pyramids at Giza from the minaret of a ruinied mosque on the Moquatum cliffs.
    Nesbitt-Egypt_pyramid_3-07b.jpg
  • A Bedouin desert guide, Achmed Abu Bakr, strides across a massive dune ridge in the Great Sand Sea, just south of Siwa Oasis in Egypt near Lybia. Also the Egyptian Western Desert or Lybian Desert.
    Nesbitt_Egypt_SandSea_3-05-warm.JPG
  • EGYPT - Egyptian Western desert, Bedouin guide leads a camel caravan on a trek along the Dharb el Dakhla track from Farafra Oasis to Dakhla Oasis through the dunes of the sand sea. Sun plays though patchy cloud to form bands of light across gentle dunes
    Nesbitt_Egypt_Dakhla_11-09-exb.JPG
  • Camel drivers at the great pyramids at Giza, Egypt
    Nesbitt-Egypt_pyramid_1-17.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - Man carries crate through the covered passages of 600 year old, mud brick, village of El quasr in Dakhla oasis. As the passage contracts into the distance, the light gets more intense. The man is at the tunnel's end silhouetted by the bright light.
    Nesbitt-Egypt_Dakhla_13-12.jpg
  • Chalk formations in the white desert, near Farafra Oasis, Egypt
    Egypt-white_desert-07.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 -  An Egyptian store cleverly advertises its advantages. "The Cheap Shop in Town."
    Nesbitt-Egypt_Bahariya_1-15.jpg
  • The cheap shop in town. Bahariya Oasis, Egypt.
    Nesbitt-Egypt_Bahariya_1-19-exb.jpg
  • Cairo, Egypt - Fruit sellers stall near the citadal with vibrantly displayed fruits.
    Nesbitt-Egypt_Markets_1-16c.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 -  A felucca rests on the shore of the beautifully colored Mediterranean.  Anchored in the shallow water, it waits to taxi passengers across the bay in Marsa Matrough. White sands, clear water and a rich blue sky accent the bright yellow boat.
    Nesbitt-Egypt_Boats_2-06.JPG
  • Egypt, 2000 - Three local girls in colorful dresses walk through the Mendes dig site while balancing baskets on their heads. The baskets are filled with earth from excavation at the dig site near Mansura in the Nile Delta. The bright yellow, red, and purple dresses are the girls work clothes.
    Village Girls-new.JPG
  • Egypt, Siwa Oasis 1999 - A woman, wrapped in the traditional blue robes of the Siwa Oasis, enters her family home. In her blue robe she blends in perfectly with the surrounding buildings.
    Nesbitt-egt 0007 siwa-fnl.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - A bedouin guide leads three camels down crisscrossing tire tracks and into the horizon. The tracks seem to stretch into the distance forever on a trek not be covered easily by the camels versus the cars that came before.
    cameltracks.jpg
  • Karnack Temple, Luxor, Egypt - The Hidden gate
    Nesbitt-karnack temple hidden gate.jpg
  • Egyptian Antiqueties department sign promoting tourism on the west bank, Luxor, Egypt
    Nesbitt-embace of the history.jpg
  • Archeologist makes a notes and drawing of relief carving in the tomb of Ramose in the Valley of the nobels, Luxor, Egypt
    Tannis-Ramose.JPG
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 -  A family sits me down for a chat and tea amoung the grave markers near their living space.
    family chaos 008426.TIF
  • Interior of the Muhamed Ali Mosque, part of the Citadel of Cairo, Egypt
    Muhamad Ali mosque w lady.jpg
  • An ornately Carved wooden wall partitions of a section of a mosque, old Islamic Cairo, Egypt.
    Nesbitt_Cairo-Mosques_1-15.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - Sunset with domed Cairo Mosque. The setting sun silhouettes the spire of an Islamic mosque against an deep orange sky.
    Nesbitt_Cairo-Mosques_1-19.jpg
  • Men smoke water pipes (Sheesha) in a traditional cafe, west bank, Luxor, Egypt.
    Nesbitt-West Bank Village 2-01.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - Sinous dune ridge in the great sand sea
    sinous dune ridge siwa 3.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - Desert trek camp site. Tea water boils on a tiny fire as a trekker in background prepares cups.
    a6 teakettle-print.JPG
  • Egypt, 2000 - A delivery boy bikes through crowded Cairo market while balancing a wooden cage on his head.
    Cairo Market Blur.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - A rippled sand dune in the Great Sand Sea backed by blue skies.
    ripples dune face, siwa.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - Egyptian western desert.  Lunch time rendezvous with the supply vehicle, an old FJ40 Landcruiser, midway through a Camel trek  across the sand sea desert between Farafra and Dakhla Oasis.
    dharb el Dahkla14-exhb.jpg
  • Egypt, 1999 - A woman, wrapped in the traditional blue robes of the Siwa Oasis, enters her family home. In her blue robe she blends in perfectly with the surrounding buildings.
    Nesbitt-egt 0007 siwa-fnl.jpg
  • Egypt, Cairo 2000 - Interior of the Muhammad Ali Mosque on the citadel in Cairo
    Nesbitt_Muhammad_Ali_Mosque_1-01.jpg
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Boys play marbles on top of a grave.
    marbles 003209.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Girl working in a make shift kitchen locker in her family compound among the grave markers.
    sitting in cabinet 002611.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Smoking in another tomb enclosure.
    smokin in tomb 008514.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Undertakers enter a tomb crypt they have just opened.
    men going into crypt.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Young men show the interior of a crypt they are repairing.
    guys in crypt with bones.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1998 - Boy doing school work in front of graves.
    home work old 98xx.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Washing and hanging laundry among the graves.
    laundry 001502.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - Abdul Rassy naps next to a grave marker.
    ab dul rassy sleep991429.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - On the Eid al Akhtar a family butchering a sheep in their compound amoung the graves.
    eid butchering 008429.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - resident and tomb caretaker naps next to his home.
    sleeping w graves 00x136.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Tea and shesha  is shared by the laborers and undertakers in Abdul Rassy's area near the Qaitbay Mosque.
    ab dul rassy's men 007801.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1998 - Omo Hassan is in charge of this area of tombs where she sits on the main thouroughfare everyday.
    omo hassan + coffin 98.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1998 - Boy releases a pet dove in the family kitichen area while his mother sleeps next to a grave. Some 1/2 million people inhabit the massive, 7km long cemetery that borders the easter side of Cairo.  They form a complete civilization living on top of, within, and around the graves of their ancestors.
    dove 980720.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead  - A boy plays with a pet dove while the cat watches. Some 1/2 million people inhabit the massive, 7km long cemetery that borders the easter side of Cairo.  They form a complete civilization living on top of, within, and around the graves of their ancestors.
    catching dove + cat.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - A tomb guardian reads the paper.  For the inhabitants of the cemetery daily live goes on among the the graves.
    reading paper 99xx.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - Kids play among the tomb structures.
    boy in stuctured portal 99x.TIF
  • Man carries grate through the covered passages of 600 year old, mud brick, village of El quasr in Dakhla oasis. Egypt
    man with crate, Quasr.JPG
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Undertakers and laborers "shotgun".  Drug use is much more common across the cememtery than in Egyptian society in general.
    shotgun mohamed on gr004718.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - a funeral procession passes by
    funeral cropped 009726.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Resident undertakers kill time with dominoes an Egyptian national pastime.
    dominoes vert 99xx.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - boys playing among the graves have just helped at a funeral and now have extra flowers to carry around.
    kids w flowers.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Tomb guards and undertakers kill time sitting on grave markers.
    sitting on gr one leg007810.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - pidgeon coop on a roof top in the qaitbay area
    pidgeon roost 004403.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead - a typical burial inside a crypt
    bones in crypt .TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - high school student does her school work at her desk set up between the grave markers.
    homework closer 002718.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 -  Young men escape from their undertaker duties and watch a television they have set up on a grave marker in a tomb.
    tv on tomb.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Teenage girl outside her home next to the temporary water main.
    girl left water main 001119.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - A young boy home who hasn't gone to school that day.
    boy+graves 000230.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Washing and hanging laundry among the graves.
    laundry closer 000118.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - On the Eid al Akhtar a family butchering a sheep in their compound amoung the graves.
    family eid speep parts0058.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - overview of the southren cemetery from a ruined mosque on the Moquatam cliffs.
    overview from ruin tilt0077.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - haircut time among the grave markers.
    haircut 991310.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1998 - skull found in the collapsed debris of a tomb.
    skull 98xxxx.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead  1999 - Some 1/2 million people inhabit the massive, 7km long cemetery that borders the easter side of Cairo.  They form a complete civilization living on top of, within, and around the graves of their ancestors.
    overview Quaitbay + kid 99x.TIF
  • Egyptian Western desert, Bedouin guide leads a camel caravan on a trek along the Dharb el Dakhla track from Farafra Oasis to Dakhla Oasis through the dunes of the sand sea.  Seen from riding the camel.
    Nesbitt_Egypt_Dakhla_6-16.JPG
  • Suez, 1997 - Traditionally dressed woman feels the water. She will have to swim in all of her clothes while childen swim freely around her. A container ship loaded with cargo makes its way through the suez canal in the background.
    Nesbitt-Egypt_Boats_5-05.jpg
  • Nesbitt-Egypt_Dakhla_13-06.JPG
  • City of the Dead, Cairo - Young family
    boy v close left-baby991226.TIF
  • City of the Dead, Cairo - Mona Achmed, a tomb guardian.
    mona achmend portrait 6x6.TIF
  • Some 1/2 million people inhabit the massive, 7km long cemetery that borders the easter side of Cairo.  They form a complete civilization living on top of, within, and around the graves of their ancestors.
    Over view w kids.TIF
  • Luxor temple
    Luxor Temple, Ramses, Night.jpg
  • A Bedouin desert guide, Achmed Abu Bakr strides across a massive dune ridge. It is this ridge and many others like it that comprise the Great Sand Sea, just south of the Siwa Oasis. Egyptian Western Desert or Lybian Desert.
    Exhibit ahmed in desert 11x 17.jpg
  • Luxor temple
    Luxor Temple entrance-red sky.jpg
  • City of the Dead, Cairo, 2000 - Mother cleans a pot on top of a grave marker near her make shift kitchen..
    washing pan on grave000820.TIF
  • Egypt, Luxor 1999 - A Felucha glides through the sunset on the Nile River
    Nesbitt-Egypt_Boats_1-03-b.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - Sinous dune ridge in the great sand sea
    sinous dune ridge siwa-bw.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - Egyptian western desert.  Lunch time rendezvous with the supply vehicle, an old FJ40 Landcruiser, midway through a Camel trek  across the sand sea desert between Farafra and Dakhla Oasis.
    Nesbitt-old_scans-Dakhla-Dharb_El_Da...jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - Four riders on motorcycle weave though Cairo traffic. Camera has panned to catch moving motorcycle in focus while background is blurred.
    Cairo 4 on motorcycle.jpg
  • Egypt, 2000 - A bedouin guide removes a resting camel's saddle after a long day of trekking in the desert.
    a8 Hitching up the camel saddle.jpg
  • Mansura, Egypt 1998 - Portrait painters kiosk on street corner along the Nile.
    Masura 01.JPG
  • Cairo, Egypt, 1999 - Hand painted cinema and movie billboards cover a building site in Midan Orabi, downtown Cairo.
    Cairo Cinma billboards02.JPG
  • 8-bit RGB flat Mac byte order LZW compressed TIFF  file, 2418x3600 pixels (9.40x14.00 inches) @ 257.14 pixels/inch, written by Adobe Photoshop 7.0
    ex-Felucha on the Nile v.JPG
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