Beno Saradzic is at it again.

Three years ago, the Slovenian photographer, who lives in the UAE, gave us a spectacular time-lapse photo/video of Abu Dhabi. It seems much more recent, in my memory, but here is the blog post from 2011.

The new photo project is named: Beyond: Memoirs in a Time Lapse. You also can click to the video via the story done by The National.

Some explanation/context:

This video has elements of Abu Dhabi in it, mostly in the opening minutes of the seven-minute video.

The “pineapple” buildings (the Al Bahr Towers) in the opening minutes is in Abu Dhabi. The “rough” (pineapple-like) exterior is made up of panels that open or close depending on the location of the sun. The process helps keep the buildings cool.

Also, the stained glass early on appears to be from the Central Souk, in Abu Dhabi, and the footage of green mangroves in the sea … that’s Abu Dhabi.

Most of the rest is Dubai, the forest of high-rises.

Some of the most interesting footage shows fog creeping over Dubai but not reaching high enough to cover the tops of the tallest buildings.

Truth be told, fog is unusual in the UAE. Not more than 25 days a year, I would guess, almost all in the winter.

The photos do not convey the overpowering heat that is life here, six months a year.

As was the case three years ago, what is striking about this is the “from above” nature of it. In Abu Dhabi, but especially in Dubai, humans are like ants — and whether walking or more likely driving, our worm’s-eye-view does not give a person a sense of “now this is a really tall building, as opposed to the one before it, which is just kinda tall.”

The mall photos are from the Dubai Mall, and the enormously tall and pointy building is, of course, the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.

The airport is Dubai’s, with scads of planes taking off and landing; and my sense is that the port is Dubai’s, as well. In Jebel Ali, mostly. The scenes of boats, that’s all Dubai, part of it near The Palm development and the rest in the “creek” area.

Have a look. Interesting stuff, and no less so for those of us who actually live here … to see what the UAE’s two biggest cities look like from the vantage point of a small plane.