I made this photograph at the end of a ten-hour bus tour through much of Dubai. As the sun went down over the mosques of Old Dubai, seagulls make their way across a flaming sky as the Muslim call to prayer sounds over the loud speakers of a towering minaret. The architecture in this older area is that of a traditional Middle Eastern city, a far cry from the curving and soaring Las Vegas style towers of downtown Dubai. In this image, we see the essence of the city as it used to be.