Hello!
"What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger". You could see this in people living in desert. Iran has a diverse weather, from arid in the center to humid in north and south, from warm in nearly most of Iran (😅) to cold in high altitudes of west and north west. Most of the historical sites are place in central Iran, in cities like Yazd and Isfahan. Although there is a river in Isfahan, but generally both cities are arid. Kerman, another arid city, also has some great sand castles. There are far less historical sites in North of Iran which is humid and anything could grow by itself . All these lead me to the conclusion that nothing significant comes out of an easy life. The question is do you want an easy life, or build something significant.
Few years ago I went to Varzaneh desert with my friends to make a documentary about a disease caused by an insect that lives close to desert and causes skin lesion. The disease is called cutaneous leishmaniasis. We talk with few people, some locals, some just visiting the desert, about how much they know about the disease. The goal was to increase the public awareness of that disease because it's easy to prevent it, but hard to cure it.
These are few shots of that trip.
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D | Lens | Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM |
| Settings | ISO-400 | 1/500 s | f/8 | 60mm | Location and date | Varzaneh, Isfahan, Iran || August 2019 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D | Lens | Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM |
| Settings | ISO-400 | 1/500 s | f/8 | 105mm | Location and date | Varzaneh, Isfahan, Iran || August 2019 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D | Lens | Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM |
| Settings | ISO-400 | 1/400 s | f/4 | 84mm | Location and date | Varzaneh, Isfahan, Iran || August 2019 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D | Lens | Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM |
| Settings | ISO-400 | 1/2500 s | f/4 | 105mm | Location and date | Varzaneh, Isfahan, Iran || August 2019 |
never imagined to see such a golden like view of the desert 😃 also this documentary you're making sounds interesting, never heard of such an insect before in this sort of climate but would like to see what it looks like! thank you for sharing your wonderful photos! 😄
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Desert might not be a good place to live, but it has many beautiful sceneries. It's actually a mosquito. If I remember correctly, the mosquito it self is not the root of the problem, but it caries the virus(?) from rats that live close by. So in order to fight the disease, they also kill the rats that are close to villages and houses. They also kill the mosquitos but I don't know which one is more effective.
Thanks for your comment.
and here i thought botflies were nightmares, can never be too safe out there...
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