Day 241 - Monday 27 December 2010

Heli Pad. The helicopter operating base across the road from the PHF...

Day 240 - Sunday 26 December 2010

Festive Abstract 2. Fairy light maypole Christmas tree type thing in the Americal part of the flightline. I've superimposed and blended an inverted layer copy to acheive the abstract effect...

Day 239 - Saturday 25 December 2010

Christmas Teddy. This one is for my daughter, Sian, who wanted me to take a picture of the teddy she sent with me to Afghanistan...

Day 238 - Friday 24 December 2010

Receeding. A view of the service ally at the back of the TDA pods...

Day 237 Thursday 23 December 2010

RECON. Embossed lettering on a differnt make blast wall...

Day 236 - Wednesday 22 December 2010

Relection. The rather grubby reflection of sand and sky in the sheet metal panelling on the side of a jingly market stall...

Day 235 - Tuesday 21 December 2010

Hesco. Close-up of a Hesco barrier, an alternative to the concrete blast barrier...

Day 234 - Monday 20 December 2010

Close. Detail on the valve handle for the ablutions tent water supply. Yes, I know, it's a shot of the plumbing again...

Day 233 - Sunday 19 December 2010

Cocoon. A view down the corridor that links the tents within an accomodation pod...

Day 232 - Saturday 18 December 2010

Vent. The ventilation grill on one of the electricity supply power packs for the accomodation tents...

Day 231 - Friday 17 December 2010

Panorama. Took a drive around the perimiter fence for a better view of the outside world. This was shot through the chain link fence and is a panoramic crop from the standard 4:3 image from my compact. The foreground was boring bare earth and the inevitable razorwire fence...

Day 230 - Thursday 16 December 2010

Rugs. Back on the Boardwalk, this is one of several "local!" traders...

Day 229 - Wednesday 15 December 2010

Sign. The letters on the Passenger Handling Facility has letters cut from wood...

Day 228 - Tuesday 14 December 2010

Pink. Another cracking sunrise, but this time I crossed the road outside the PHF and climbed up the blast wall to get this view of the outside world...

Day 227 - Monday 13 December 2010

Boards. The well worn boards of the Boardwalk...

Day 226 - Sunday 12 December 2010

Razorwire. If it isn't blast walls then its razorwire topped fences that make up most of the "scenery" here...

Day 225 - Saturday 11 December 2010

Emblem. A couple of the blast walls in the airside yard have been painted with some unit insignia. This is one of the better efforts...

Day 224 - Friday 10 December 2010

High rise. This may look like a tall skyscraper but It's actually an air conditioning unit... one of several positioned around the outside of the PHF tents. Its only about two meters high...

Day 223 Thursday 9 December 2010

Let there be light. Service day for the PHF generator! It's offline for about an hour and we're plunged into darkness. The only way to get light into the tent is to open the doors to let the sunlight (and dust?) in...

Day 222 - Wednesday 8 December 2010

Festive Abstract. Hand held close-up of some fairy lights decorating the verandah of an American unit's building...

Day 221 - Tuesday 7 December 2010

Boardwalk. A location that is often shown on news and documentary programs! It's not as good as the press make out but it does provide some nice (if expensive!!!) places to chill out...

Day 220 - Monday 6 December 2010

8180. One of the tags used to identyfy our doby (laundry) bags...

Day 219 - Sunday 5 December 2010

Flip Flop. Close-up of an essential bit of kit in this dusty environment...

Day 218 - Saturday 4 December 2010

Sunrise. One advantage (and possibly the only one!!!) of the dust here is the beautiful sunrises...

Day 217 - Friday 3 December 2010

Chrome Spaghetti. The legs of 4 stools and a coffee table in the NAFFI coffee shop in the departures lounge... the coffee shop has the nicest, most comfortabe kit in the place...

Day 216 - Thursday 2 December 2010

Roll on. Close up of the rollers on the RapiScan machine used by the RAF police to scan the baggage...

Day 215 - Wednesday 1 December 2010

Comfy seats... not! Some of the nice comfortable seats in the departure "lounge" at the PHF...