The charming, gentle and wonderfully competent Bedouin Hakim (doctor) Jordan Hamdi, administrator and guide as well as our superb host and hands-on healer at Faraj Fox Camp, near St Katarina Tourist Village, on our November 2004 visit to Mt Sinai. For this portrait he sat in the Office chair, surrounded by maps and photographs of the area as well as from other important places including, of course, Mecca and Jerusalem.Technical data: camera, Canon F1; lens, L-series Canon 20-35mm; film, Kodachrome II; exposure, 1/8th second at f/3.5. No filter.Transparency scanned to digital file using Nikon 50 Coolpic 35mm scanner.

The charming, gentle and wonderfully competent Bedouin Hakim (doctor) Jordan Hamdi, administrator and guide as well as our superb host and hands-on healer at Faraj Fox Camp, near St Katarina Tourist Village, on our November 2004 visit to Mt Sinai. For this portrait he sat in the Office chair, surrounded by maps and photographs of the area as well as from other important places including, of course, Mecca and Jerusalem.Technical data: camera, Canon F1; lens, L-series Canon 20-35mm; film, Kodachrome II; exposure, 1/8th second at f/3.5. No filter.Transparency scanned to digital file using Nikon 50 Coolpic 35mm scanner.