Standing portrait of two falconers ... Sue Johnson

Standing portrait of two falconers ... Sue JohnsonStanding portrait of two falconers in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, with their falcon and its quarry, in the sands surrounding Al Ain. On the left an Arab falconer carries a hooded falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm. On the right Hamad, a tribesman of the Mahra Bedouin, carries a dead MacQueen's Bustard (houbara) by its legs. Each man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf. In the

identifying him as currently undergoing the initiation ceremony

outside Qasr Al Hosn fort in Abu Dhabi

Monks blowing ceremonial trumpets or radung from the roof of the Chakpori Medical College

and carries a rifle under one arm

Portrait of Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum

On the right two remaining columns stand next to a house

with the camel (named Ghazala) which he rode during his second crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

riding a camel in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq

photographed at Buraymi

A house stands on the left

Beside him

It has its mouth closed and has a tuft of hair on its neck under its head