My recent vacation in Egypt was amazing. Expectations were met and exceeded. We did an organized group tour with Trafalgar, of which I’ll be writing a full review soon for any of you readers who may be interested in visiting in the near future.
Below are some photos I took during our approximately 2 weeks there. I usually don’t have this many pictures in a single post, but there was just so much good stuff to see and there was a lot I wanted to share. All photos were taken with either a Nikon Coolpix A, iPhone 6S, or Holga 120N film camera with Portra 400 film. Enjoy, and hope everyone has a great week!
Bread maker
Karnak temple in Luxor
Karnak temple
Karnak
Original colors preserved for thousands of years on the underside of this stone structure
Karnak temple
Karnak temple
Luxor temple
Inside Luxor temple
Luxor at night
Nile cruise ships which we stayed on for half our tour
Colossi of Memnon
Valley of the Kings
Valley of the Kings
Inside a tomb at Valley of the Kings
Wall of hieroglyphics
Valley of the Kings
Tut’s tomb in Valley of the Kings. No photos allowed inside, even with the photography pass.
Djeser-djeseru (temple of Hatshepsut)
Djeser-djeseru
Temple of hatshepsut
Habu temple
Habu temple
Habu temple
Habu temple. I caught this cool beam of light shining into one of the rooms within the temple.
Horse carriage driver & his boy
Edfu temple
Edfu temple
Kom ombo; a double temple dedicated to the crocodile and falcon gods
A local Egyptian beer. Not the same as Stella in the US.
Temple of Philae located on an island
Philae temple
Philae temple
Street vendors descend like vultures everywhere we went
View from the Nile
Whirling Dervish performance on our cruise ship
The most common fast food chain we saw everywhere: KFC.
Abu Simbel great temple. Seeing this magnificent place exceeded all expectations.
Abu Simbel great temple
Inside Abu Simbel
Hieroglyphs inside Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel small temple
Inside Abu Simbel
Inside Abu Simbel
City of Cairo
Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
Alabaster mosque
Hanging church in Cairo
Giza at night
Giza light show. It was alright. If you skip it, you’re not missing much.
Egyptian museum
Local cereal. Looks like Frosted Flakes, tasted like Pops.
Pyramid of Khufu (the big one)
My favorite iPhone photo from the trip
Pyramids of Giza from Panorama Point
The iPhone’s burst mode makes taking action shots a piece of cake. Used to be such a pain in the ass trying to get a picture like this.
The pyramids through the plastic lens of a Holga
Camels at Panorama Point in Giza
The 4500 year old Mr Sphinx
Holga shot of the Sphinx
Camels hanging out at Giza
Hieroglyphs in a tomb that was just opened to the public a few weeks ago.
These are all great photos that it’s hard to choose which is my favourite. But I have a thing for black and white photographs and if I’ll choose one, I would go for the temple of Hatshepsut. I’m glad that you didn’t hold back on posting photographs using different gadgets. It’s nice to see what a photo would turn out using a Holga. I wonder how you juggle all these gadgets.
Once in a trip, I dropped a Canon Powershot which I proven how durable it is. Then I also have an iPhone and an iPad because I don’t have power bank back then. Next time I’ll be more prepared and agile, juggling gadgets. And I’ll do the burst mode also because my friends and I can’t just get the right timing when jumping. Why do we have to jump anyway?
Thanks! I enjoyed taking them. The Hatshepsut shot with the people holding umbrellas is one of my favorites as well. Most days on tour I carried around a backpack since it was so hot and we had to drink lots of water, so I threw my Holga in the bag and carried my iPhone in one pocket and my Nikon camera in the other pocket. I only took two rolls of film with 12 frames each, so I was very deliberate about using the film camera. Without the daypack, it would have been a pain in the ass carrying around 3 gadgets.
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These are all great photos that it’s hard to choose which is my favourite. But I have a thing for black and white photographs and if I’ll choose one, I would go for the temple of Hatshepsut. I’m glad that you didn’t hold back on posting photographs using different gadgets. It’s nice to see what a photo would turn out using a Holga. I wonder how you juggle all these gadgets.
Once in a trip, I dropped a Canon Powershot which I proven how durable it is. Then I also have an iPhone and an iPad because I don’t have power bank back then. Next time I’ll be more prepared and agile, juggling gadgets. And I’ll do the burst mode also because my friends and I can’t just get the right timing when jumping. Why do we have to jump anyway?
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Thanks! I enjoyed taking them. The Hatshepsut shot with the people holding umbrellas is one of my favorites as well. Most days on tour I carried around a backpack since it was so hot and we had to drink lots of water, so I threw my Holga in the bag and carried my iPhone in one pocket and my Nikon camera in the other pocket. I only took two rolls of film with 12 frames each, so I was very deliberate about using the film camera. Without the daypack, it would have been a pain in the ass carrying around 3 gadgets.
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