PHOTOGRAPHS
Iran:
Isfahan, Iran– photo date: 2003
The Khajoo
Bridge on the river Zayandeh-rood is about 500 years old, dating back to the Safavieh (or Safavid) dynasty
when Isfahan was the capital of Iran. On a hot summer
day, working men taking a break from work gather in the cool lower chambers to
rest and socialize. Often they take turns to sing or recite poetry.
Mount Damavand, Iran – photo date: 2003
The majestic peak stands about 18,400 ft (5,600 meters) tall
in the Alborz range near the Caspian Sea and is the
highest peak in Iran.
If you fly from Turkey
towards the capital Tehran,
you may see the snow-peaked cap piercing through any existing cloud layer.
Sunset in the Caspian
Sea, Iran
– photo date: 2003
Sunken ship in the Shatt-al-Arab River
(Arvand-rood) at the Iraqi border, Khorramshahr, Iran
– photo date: 2007
A remnant of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) started by the
now-dead Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator. With at least one million
military and civilian casualties on both sides, this was perhaps the bloodiest
regional war on record. Please see The “forgotten” Iran-Iraq war for more
information.
The legend of Khorramshahr:
“Khorramshahr” literally means pleasant city but during the war it turned into
the most ruined city in Iran,
so much so that for a while it was called “khooninshahr”
or city of blood.
The reason for this ruin was the legendary defense of the town by its
residents. The invading Iraqi forces had to fight for it practically one house
at a time and they suffered heavy casualties. This experience was said to have
discouraged the Iraqi army from occupying more Iranian towns. However,
reconstruction has been slow and much of the city has not been rebuilt yet.
The White Bridge
(Poll-e-Sefid) over the Karun
River, Ahvaz, Iran
– photo date: 2007
USA
Key West in December – photo date: 2002
A good way of visiting Key West
is to rent a car in Miami (if you do not live
there) and drive through the Florida Keys all the way south to the neat little island of Key West! Some cruise ships also stop
there.
A Key
West sunset in the Gulf of Mexico
– photo date: 2002
That’s the space
shuttle Columbia
(RIP) – photo date: December, 2002
On
February 1, 2003 Columbia disintegrated
during re-entry over Texas,
killing all seven crew members. This was her 28th and final mission that had
begun January 16, 2003. Visit NASA’s memorial website and offer a
prayer for her valiant crew.
Rocky Mountain National
Park, Colorado – photo date: 2003
For me, this was mountain climbing!
The Dream Lake, Rocky
Mountain National Park, Colorado – photo date: 2003
Ballooning over Boulder, Colorado
– photo date: 2003
Reflections in still
waters, Adirondacks National Park,
New York – photo date: 2007
An autumn walk in the
woods, Adirondacks National Park,
New York – photo date: 2007
A vista view in the
Adirondacks, New York
– photo date: 2007
A parking sign near
the Mirror Lake,
the Adirondacks, New York
– photo date: 2007
The World:
Sarajevo, Bosnia – photo date: 2004
Coffee cups make out the map of Bosnia;
one coffee cup for each person confirmed dead during or as a result of the
heart-breaking civil war of the 1990’s when the former Yugoslavia broke up.
The Great
Wall of China – photo date: 2002
Ancient Egyptian ruins
by the Nile River – photo date: 2006
A Nile
sunset – photo date: 2006
Notre Dame de Paris –
photo date: 2006
All historic sites
and nature photographs on this page were taken by H. Sedaghat, except those of
them in which he appears, of course.
Death is no more
inevitable than birth; such is life, that majestic dream of God’s.
G.H. Segu
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