Welcome to my world folks,

Self Portrait, Nabil B. Faragallah

A Blast from the Past.

Why I like Judo - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9z0u22mC1s&feature=related

Juventus Judo Club, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1957-1974

 

"Ura Nage" (back throw) & Sensei Luigi Giuseppe "Gino" Pecol

Kata Guruma (shoulder wheel throw).

Me throwing Gino. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHz40iUNIsc, 

The main purpose of my web page (I hope), is to keep family and friends around the world informed (to some extent) about my family and I. I also try to provide some entertainment (images, videos, links, media, a slide show, stories and so on). Historically, my web pages are visited by people from 158+ countries. By far, the most visited page is "Judo". 

No one can go through the entire web page in one sitting, there is just way too much to read, see and check out. 

  

Family business & Liberty Press, 16th century Khan el Khalili, Old Cairo, Egypt  Paracho de Verduzco (often called merely Paracho) Mexico's guitar center is a small city located in Michoacán, Mexico. 

I added over 10,500+ images in 16 galleries. The images are sized 800X600 to fit most standard screens. There is also a 1,650+ "wide screen"/high resolution images slide show, complete with music. Choosing the images gave me mental indigestion, I have over a million.

  

Gulfstream G-V G-550, my former office.

There is an aviation gallery as well. I was in aviation a good part of my life (1965 to 2010) and made friends with pilots all over the world who I know enjoy airplane pictures. I did not fly all the different airplanes in the Aviation gallery and not all the aircraft I operated are in there either. I included this gallery mainly because many of the airplanes I operated are now either retired in the Arizona and California deserts or displayed in museums around the world. I feel fortunate to have operated some first generation jets and a few of the last reciprocating engine classics.

I wrote and included a few short stories about my experiences over the years, things I have done and places I have been (I visited about 183 countries). I write about one story a week for my children. They are about when I sailed and flown around the world; my single-hand circum-navigation (by sea), an attempt to break the round the world speed record in an airplane (by air), an evacuation flight I operated out of Eritrea during the war with Ethiopia, rounding all five capes and sailing the Southern Ocean to Antarctica. I also sailed to the vast South Pacific to find a schooner a friend of mine was rescued from......among other areas and storis, (“Stories”).  

  

"Great Eagle", my last boat; a 42' (47' LOA), 18.5 Ton Ketch Rig Motor Sailor.

The boat I circum-navigated twice in single-hand

Anse Source D'Argent, Digue Island. Seychelles, Indian Ocean. 

I circum-navigated single-hand twice (by sea), over 66,000 miles and rounded all five capes. I sailed round the world in "The Wrong Direction" and went through both canals in my last boat "Great Eagle" (above). 1980-85.

All the High-Resolution photographs in this web page where taken using various digital cameras, Many however, were taken years before the digital age. Back then, I used Leica, Retina and Exacta Varex 35mm mirror-reflex cameras (for a very short time I even used 110mm). A couple of those "state of the art" cameras I used back then were years old at that time but produced excellent images. I moved up to the larger and newer 4x5 format cameras; Rolliflex, Hasselblad, Mamiya and Yashica for a short time. In 1980 when I embarked on my single-handed circum-navigation aboard my 42-ft motor sailor, "Great Eagle", I returned to the 35mm format and the newer single-reflex cameras. I did that mostly because the 4x5 cameras were too cumbersome.

I chose the Nikon F-2 series camera body and Nikkor lenses; I also had a set of 35mm Canon cameras and manual lenses; I felt were the best at that time. I shot slides mostly, using Kodak film (with silver) almost exclusively. I recently had Kodak transfer several hundred of my slides to Hi-Resolution digital images. On occasion, I also used Agfa products. You will be able to tell the difference between the old and new images.

    Young Samburu woman, Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolph), Kenya;

Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo and Young Surma woman, south west Ethiopia.

Some of the photographs you will see I shot as far back as 1961 when I was just a baby in diapers living and traveling around Africa on my own and with Ted Shatto Safaris. In later years, when I acquired my pilot certificates I had the rare opportunity to fly into many otherwise inaccessible and remote areas of the world, in particular Ethiopia "the Roof of Africa". In the 60's, Ethiopia had about 3,500 miles of all-weather roads (less than the UK did in the first century). The Italians built those roads during World War II and their brief occupation between 1936 and 1941 to move troops and equipment. During that period, Ethiopia was Italy's headquarters for their Africa campaign. Even today, the country does not have that many more miles of road than it did back in 1941, they just paved some that were already there. This is mostly due to topography, being the highest country in Africa. Ethiopia remains the only nation in Africa free of colonization or long-term occupation. It is also the only African nation to defeat a western power in battle at the battle of Adua.

Today, I rent an airplane whenever and wherever I travel in the world so I may have access to remote areas. I also like taking aerial photographs, they tend to enhance my subject matter and provide some continuity as well as a bird's eye view of places.

Aerostar, The Airplane I used to break the round the world speed record in.

Many of the photographs in Norway were taken within a five-mile radius of both our homes there; one home is on Risøya (an Island) on the south east coast of Norway and our summer home in Lista, south-southwest of Lindesness, the furthest point south in Norway.

One of our homes on Risøya, Norway and Gus, June 2010.

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If you have any questions or suggestions on how I can make my Web Page better, easier to navigate or you wish to see more or less of anything, please “Contact Me”.

Thanx.

***Blue Skies***

           Nabil -

Updated December 2011