View of a villager walking ... Sue Johnson

View of a villager walking ... Sue JohnsonView of a villager walking past 'arish huts at a Bani Yas settlement in Liwa oasis. On the left 'arish huts sit inside a high fenced enclosure made of palm fronds (locally called saaf). On the right a Bani Yas villager walks past the enclosure across an expanse of sand, while behind him a goat stands on a sand ridge. Behind the settlement a high ridge of sand dunes stretches out across the horizon below a hazy sky. This image was taken during Wilfred

In the background people walk across a vast empty area in front of a row of houses

wearing a headdress and neck ornament of beads

two men and a teenaged boy

He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) and a dark thobe (shirt)

The buildings on the left are topped only with adobe

View of people playing in Dubai Creek and a sailing dhow

Behind them a high stone wall borders the street

and feathers in his hair

View of houses at Puchal

gathered in a circle with rifles raised

Group portrait of a three boys and a young man riding a donkey at Ad Darb well

and as the range is a good one and the water of the Nutria springs can be readily taken out for purposes of irrigation