The staircase in my dump of a hotel in Casablanca.
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Not sure how I managed it, but this photo actually makes Casablanca look vaguely appealing!
Most of the old French quarter is semi derelict with rubbish blowing about and shuttered up shops. It would make a really good set for a zombie film.
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I'm back from 2 weeks travelling around Morocco with hundreds of photos to process, a mountain of laundry and the obligatory stomach bug.
Anyway - this is the Hassan II mosque in Casablanca, Morocco's tallest building and the second largest mosque in the world.
It cost US$750m, raised by forced taxes on the locals which I thought was quite obscene given the awful poverty in the country - a perfect example being the shanty town just across the road from the mosque.
The beach from where this was taken isnt the nicest - I was being heckled by some drunks as I took this, and some locals were using the beach as an open sewer. Actually, Casablanca itself is an awful place - I couldn't wait to get out of it as I didn't feel safe there - it smells of wee, and there is rubbish everywhere.
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This is a B&W version of an earlier upload. I've been messing about with old photos in Silver Efex Pro and quite liked how this one turned out.
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Just about the only building in Casablanca that isn't falling to bits.
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