Lonely at dusk...

It's quite common to see sweethearts by the Nile. Egypt is a quite conservative country, so walks by the Nile is an acceptable behaviour.

What is less common is to see women by themselves. Specially at dusk and at night. This girl seems to be waiting for something. Who knows, maybe her fiancé.

I love this aspect of photographs. While they describe the physicality of the scene, it describes nothing real. It's nothing other than organized lying.

But at the same time, that's what draws us into the picture. What is she thinking? What are her dreams, her hopes? The fact that she acts as a cutout to the Nile gives her an almost ghost-like quality. Like she's not even really there...

This picture was taken in Cairo, with a DSLR.