This is Burj Khalifa, the tallest building on Earth. Together with the world’s tallest dancing fountain. I decided to go back there and shoot the Burj at night since I’m getting a lot of hits from the day version, which can be found here. I, like many others, was surprised when it was named Burj Khalifa since everyone is already used to calling it Burj Dubai. Anyway, it’s their building so they can name it whatever they want to. I […]
I did an hour and a half presentation today at Millennium Hotel for very selected key customers. I’m happy it turned out well 🙂 This was the terrace of the room where I did the presentation, located at the 12th floor. Here you can see the Barsha Interchange and the Dubai Metro Station. If you look behind the towers you can see some parts of the The Palm and the Atlantis hotel. Below is one of the oldest residence […]
Today is just busy. Got too much going on at work. I have to prepare for a presentation that is due on Monday and I have zero. Anyway, that’s no excuse not to take a photo. This is a flyover near work. I like the leading lines on this image 🙂 So that is 1 week done! It’s true, time really flies. How I took this shot: Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20 + Tripod Settings: f/9 | 10 secs. […]
This is day 2. This is an old Mosque in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. This project forces you to go out and experiment. It is exciting in a way, but I have 363 more pictures to go! Here’s how I took it: Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20 Settings: f8.0 | -3,0,+3 exposure bracketing Post processing : Aligned and tone mapped in Photomatix Cleaned up in Photoshop CS4 (Curves, dodge & burn, contrast) Added texture and made the texture white […]
Taken from our balcony at Christmas day. What’s so special about this roundabout on Christmas day? Nothing. That’s Christmas for you here in the Middle East. Well, at least we celebrated in our new flat; had some grilled chickens, pork liempo, carbonara, mixed buttered veggies, leche flan and some chocolate mousse. How I took this shot: Settings: f9.0 | 30 secs | single exposure (no hdr) Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20 + Manfrotto Tripod Post processing: Adjusted contrast Sharpened […]
Here you go, the tallest building on Earth. It is not easy to take a picture of this building because it is surrounded by water and the only way you can shoot this (front angle) is on a very crowded small bridge. With a wide angle lens and proper point of view, this my photo interpretation of Burj Dubai. wiki: Burj Dubai ("Dubai Tower") is a super tall skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest […]
This is really a nice 5 star hotel. If you think it already looks good, well, you should see how it looks at night! wiki: The ‘The Address Downtown Burj Dubai’ is a super tall skyscraper rising 306 meters (1,004 feet) alongside the Dubai Mall, the Old Town, and the Burj Dubai Lake in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This hotel and residential tower contains a total of 63 floors. The tower is another supertall structure in the massive development named […]
A closer look at the Kalesa. I asked the Kutsero’s (Kalesa Driver) permission on this shot. Taken weeks ago on my vacation from Manila. Hope you like it. How I took this shot: Gears: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20mm, hand held Settings: f9.0 | 1/100 | 3 shots (AEB) Post process: 3 Images, aligned, converted and tone mapped in Photomatix Cleaned in Photoshop CS4 Anyway, thanks for your time! /Mike
Another angle of the Manila Cathedral Sometimes when we look back on our school days, there are things that we wish that we could have done better or at least paid more attention to. For me, that’s my history class. Well, good thing about history is that it doesn’t change (unless further discoveries will be made), so it’s still not too late to learn more about it. I like what they said from the manilacathedral.org : The story of the […]
Taken from Jazirat Al Hamra in Ras Al Khaima, UAE. This is an abandoned village, also referred to as “ghost town”. from wiki: Ras al-Khaimah (ras al-Khaymah, literally “The Top of the Tent”) is one of the emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in the southwest of the Persian Gulf. It is in the northern part of the UAE bordering Oman. The emirate has a population of about 300,000 inhabitants. It covers an area of 656 square miles (1700 km²), […]