White Courtyards
- Location
- Muscat, Oman
- Year
- 2025
- Images
- 8
Arcades, corridors, and courtyards in Muscat, where pointed arches turn sunlight into patterns on marble.
Morning stripes across the marble. 
Lantern, stairs, and the dome. 
The pergola at nine. 
The arcade, looking east. 
An arch inside an arch. 
The corridor at its brightest. 
Fort doorways, plaster and timber. 
The fort courtyard, looking up.
I photographed these courtyards in Muscat over three mornings, arriving when the gates opened and leaving when the marble got too bright to look at.
The architecture does most of the work: pointed arches repeat down every corridor, wooden beams throw stripes of shadow, and polished floors send the light back up to the ceiling. I shot almost everything straight on and level, so the symmetry holds. The last frames come from an old fort, where the marble gives way to plaster and mud brick.
