Sony World Photography Awards 2015

Sony World Photography Awards 2015

I have decided to put three of the images from my honeymoon into the Sony World Photography Awards 2015 Travel section. Wish me luck!

Gateway to Fez...

Hand crafted tagine pots drying in the sun near Fez...

Stickers on a window...

Jardin Majorelle, The Yves Saint Laurent Garden in Marrakech

A few observations of Jardin Majorelles whilst enjoying some shade from the hot July Moroccan sun, a true oasis in the city of Marrakech.

The Sahara Desert

Camel trek in Morocco, at sunset and again at sunrise we rode camels as transport to our overnight camp in the Sahara Desert near to the Algerian border.

A journey to the Sahara Desert

Window of Moroccan stickers...

Very dry, cracked earth, we must be getting closer to the Desert.

A car sheltering in the shade under a bridge at a dried up river, how did it get there?

Tom toms in Merzouga.

Anyone for a ski on the dunes?

In 48 degree centigrade heat, a nice drink of Hawai to cool down!

Art Naji, Fez, Morocco Hand Made Mosaics and Pottery

I loved Art Naji, here they made pottery and mosaics by hand, with all of the colours being from natural sources.

Tagine pots...

Painting Tagine pots...

Each artist had a brick to rest their feet on whilst they worked.

Mosaic tiles, waiting to be cut by hand and made into something beautiful.

Fez or Fes?

Medersas or Quranic School in Fez.

We went to the tanneries but unfortunately my camera developed an odd intermittent fault so the only image I managed to capture here was of the colourful Babouche, a Moroccan slipper.

Our guide went through the Old Medina so quickly, so as not to get lost I had to take photographs while practically running!

The entrance to the Royal Palace in Fez, colourful mosaics and the flag of Morocco.

Two of the gates (Bab) to the Fez Medina, another UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Roman City of Volubilis, Morocco

A busy day, on the same day we went to Volubilis, a Roman city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, restored after an earthquake in the mid eighteenth century.

A stork's nest.

A lot of stone was looted by Moroccan rulers to build the City of Meknes.

An ancient Roman sign?

This was the only place that I felt you could really see the marks left by people who lived here. These dents in the rock were made by people washing clothes, this was the laundry.

Meknes in Morocco

Les Greniers de Moulay Ismail, this granary in Meknes had large square holes in the ceiling which let in the light in quite a magical way which I tried to capture.

The tomb of Sultan Moulay Ismail, a beautiful place of mosaics and carved plaster including Arabic script such as below.

Horse shoe shaped doorways.

Mosaics, horseshoes and fountains. 

We took our shoes off to enter the tomb, inside it was peaceful and we were still able to take photographs which I was surprised at but glad too as it was so beautiful.

Carved plasterwork, so intricate.

Magical effect of light.

Beautiful Casablanca, Morocco

These photographs are a few of the images I took on honeymoon in Morocco. 

A delicious meal in Rick's Cafe, a reconstruction of the bar from the film Casablanca.

We saw a child playing in a toy car in the grounds of Hassan II Mosque, plenty of room to play!

A building site where they appeared to really want to keep the trees and work around them!