Here is the third pic in this series - I am moving away from the original quite a lot with much heavier colours and less people. I think I'll try to move back in the other direction a bit. The woman is serving dates and tea to her family out in the dunes as the moon rises behind her. It is Iftar, which is the prayer time as the sun sets and the fast is broken during Ramadan.
Ramadan concludes with the sighting of the new moon and Eid is celebrated - this brings an end to fasting.
I realised I didn't put an explanation of the other 2 pieces so I will briefly revisit them.
This pic is about an Emirati wedding. The Bride and the groom are the central figures. The Grooms mother looks on in green while the parents and sisters of the bride discuss the groom and the arrangements. The colours used depict the very colourful women's wedding ceremonies while the men stay dressed in their traditional white. The background colours are those of the sand dunes near Al Ain in the eastern UAE near the Omani border.
These men are drinking coffee. It is almost a national pastime in the UAE. The coffee aromas are represented by the band that unites them.
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