Introduction to Digital Black & White Photography

The Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi

We see colour photos very differently from black and white photos, because we don’t actually see the world in black, white, and shades of grey. In colour, we’re looking at and discerning things in a scene based on the actual colours we perceive. Colour helps us to differentiate one pictorial elements from another. In a … Read more

Dubai – Mirage on Desert – Part 5

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

For the last day of our stay at Dubai we wanted to explore the capital of UAE, Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western coast. The city proper had a population of 921,000 in 2013 making it the second largest city of the United … Read more

Dubai – Mirage on Desert – Part 4

Big Bus Reflection

Our fourth day in Dubai started on a wrong foot. I had booked taxi on that Monday to Abu Dhabi hoping to visit Ferrari park there. What I did not realize that Monday was a holiday for the Ferrari Park. So in the last minute had to switch my program and started to explore Dubai … Read more

Dubai – Mirage on Desert – Part 3

Old Burjuman Mall Being Demolished

I was rudely awakened by constant grinding and metallic sound outside my 4th floor window of the hotel. I stared out of the window to see what was happening outside, they were demolishing the front facade of the Old Burjuman Mall to renovate it. This second oldest shopping mall of Dubai which started the mall … Read more

Dubai – Mirage on Desert – Part 2

Burj Khalifa in HDR

On our Second day in Dubai we wanted to to explore Burj Khalifa and attached Dubai mall. So when we reached there we found out that due to holiday rush (we reached there between Good Friday & Easter holidays) the observatory at 124th floor was packed with tourists. So abandoning to see the world from … Read more

Dubai – Mirage on Desert – Part 1

Burj Khalifa at night

My daughter had just finished final exams and summer holidays were starting. She wanted to spend some quality time in water parks. After searching out for several likely destinations we finalized on a desert as our water park destination – Dubai in United Arab Emirates. The emirate of Dubai is located southeast of the Persian … Read more