Above the Clouds

The early morning December Fog in Dubai has covered most of its skyline only 1 tower stands up above the rest. Currently the Tallest building in the world (As I have mentioned in my previous entries). The fog fails to cover this Burj Dubai as shown in the photo above..

Rugby Action

Some shots I made during the first day of action of the 2007 Dubai Rugby 7's. I was able to watch the first match of the Lads of our company which eventually won the Social League title. After a few months of absence I started to be active in Photography once again. After a commisioned Interior shot a month ago and another commisioned shoot this month. I'm starting to feel the groove again. Maybe its hard to take photography out of my system.

My First paid photography Job in recent times. Eversince I move in to Dubai to work been busy with my Day Job as an Architect which leaves me with little chance to do freelance photography work. The only chance I get to do Photography is during road trips which happens every now and then.
My recent project which a Friend ask me to shoot the interiors of the Boutique she's managing. I shot a couple of their outlets which located in 2 different Malls.

Its nice to do freelance work once again..

The photos below were shot at the 40th Level of our Project "The Index Building". It was during our site inspection when I took a snap using my LCA shooting the North, East and South view from the building showing the City of Dubai unfortunately didn't include the West side.

North Side View
(Emirates Tower, Dubai Financial Centre currently under development)

East Side View

South Side View
(Burj Dubai, Dubai Business Bay currently under development)

Last week It was the first time to use my LCA in shooting an event/party. Last week our company held a mini party (cocktails,drinks) as a celebration for bagging another project.
The pictures below were some of the result.
Details
Camera : Lomo LCA with colorsplash (but set the gel to natural)
Film : Kodak TMY 400 uprated to iso 200.

As all of my lomography photos no single post processing were done.

The photo above are 2 of the structure that will comprise Dubai skyline in the near future. The structure in the foreground is the Index Building (as I mentioned in my previous post is our onging project) and the structure on the background is the Burj Dubai when completed will be the tallest building in the world.

This is part of the lomography pictures I'm currently producing. This was shot from my LCA with Tunnel vision lens attached using Kodak Tmax 100 film uprated to iso 200 then process normally.

I still continue to enjoy my interest in Lomography actually I just finish my 5th Roll from my LCA will be taking it to the Lab tommorow to heve them processed and Scanned. Its been a while since I shoot using Digital Camera and my DSLR has been stocked in the dry box.
The picture above are some night shots I made with the LCA this are handheld (lazy to lug around a tripod specially when walking around the City).

Now that both Multiply and Flickr are now blocked sites here in the UAE which leaves me with blogger the only alternative to post pictures. Hope that they will not block blogger also.
Nowadays I shoot mostly with Film with my new found interest in Lomography. I just got myself a LCA recently let me show you a couple of photos I shot using it. I never knew that Lomograohy is addicting so my DSLR and my digicam is taking a brief rest.

We are almost in the halfway mark of the building structure. We shearwall reaches now to Level 36. We are targeting to complete the building by Dec 2008 which mean we have to complete the structural works (which means Level 80 )by end of the year.
So all the works now are all urgent so can't imagine how I was able to squeeze this post on my busy work day.

By the way the picture above is the current status of our project and decide to include a foreground like this delivery truck. For this picture I used black and white film (Tmax 400) with the Lomo Fisheye.

Bus Stop

A photo of one of the Bus Stop sign here in Dubai,UAE.
Using Lomo Fisheye and Fuji Superia Film

Heres another one taken from the latest roll I consumed for my action sampler. This time a shot of my favorite still subject which is Bicycle this one part of the front wheel. Maybe next time I'll show you a Fisheye shot of a bicycle which I still have to shoot.

Lets take a brief respite from posting Lomography picture. This is a photo of Cherrie a Colleague and a Good Friend of mine.
This was shot inside a moving vechicle during our ride home from the office after a days work.
Even the challenge of shooting inside a moving vechicle and the stresses of a day in the office I still capture her at her best.

Ice Cream Fix

During this hot summer climate in the Middle East were the temperature rises to a blazing 50 deg you really need to have a cold fix for me its an Ice Cream fix during a hot and humid afternoon. The photo above was shot when I'm about to leave a Baskin and Robbins Ice Cream shop. Taken by my action sampler.

Another Action Sampler shot

For today I would like to show another shot made from Action Sampler. The sode dispenser at our project office.

Shot in the crossing near my house shot this before but this will be the fisheye version.

Action Sampler

Just finish the first roll in my action sampler so I hurriedly have it process so I can see the result. So far half of the photo in that roll turns out ok (which means I like the outcome) here is one of them.

Picture for today is a self portrait using Fisheye.
Can't wait to see the Action sampler shots.

Disaster recovery

Well after a disastorous weekend, all is well now with my Macbook pro. I was able to get my backups at the office. After a clean reinstall and update the OS to 10.4.10 (which is running smoothly so far finger crossed). I was able to get almost all of my music to itunes. Get my important photos well at least my portfolio and stock photos are intact thanks to extra back up in DVD. I'm completed reinstalling some of my apps like adium (for chat) Mail plugins, and my BT client and RSS reader (some of it I have to download again).
So what else is missing I think its complete its like normal again I can do the stuff I'm doing with this computer like writing this entry for instance.

Well I'll be able to do my new passion which is Lomography (more on that on future post).

This will be the picture of the day shot using the Lomo Fisheye camera. Be posting some picture from the action sampler once I finished the roll.

Lomo Picture of the day

Just finish my first roll of film shot using my Lomo Fisheye. Instead of posting all of the picture here I thought of posting one picture at a time here. This will be the first picture from that roll.