Let X be a Riemann surface of genus at most 1, i.e. X is the Riemann sphere
or a torus. We construct a variety of examples of analytic functions g:W->X,
where W is an arbitrary subdomain of X, that satisfy Epstein's "Ahlfors islands
condition". In particular, we show that the accumulation set of any curve
tending to the boundary of W can be realized as the omega-limit set of a Baker
domain of such a function. As a corollary of our construction, we show that
there are entire functions with Baker domains in which the iterates converge to
infinity arbitrarily slowly.
We show that for many complex parameters a, the set of points that converge
to infinity under iteration of the exponential map f(z)=e^z+a is connected.
This includes all parameters for which the singular value escapes to infinity
under iteration.