Weekend diaries: an evening in Dubai (19-April-2013)

I admit often that living in Dubai is a lifetime experience. A visit to Dubai always thrills me, it has many things to offer. It attracts me with it's engineering marvels, with it's beautiful cityscape, glamorous lifestyle, global population and what not!

This time I was in Palm Jumeirah. The weather disappointed me in one hand and gifted something else from the other hand. From Jumeirah, all the landmarks of Dubai are visible - I planned a shot. The weather was so cloudy that the visibility was very poor. I waited and waited for it to be in my favor but not. Finally it was the time of sunset and clouds played their role for something good - a drama.

The dust bug of D600 did not spared me, that is evident from the photographs but the day ended with a smile on my face. It was time for the evening. I was in Jumeirah Lake Towers to visit one of my friends, the view from his balcony was something spectacular, here is a glimpse

 That is why Dubai is so beautiful in everyone's eyes.

See the high resolution images of this post here in flickr. More stories of Dubai:

1. AT THE TOP
2. My last weekend in Dubai
3. Happy New Year 2013
4. Exploring Festival city


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Weekend diaries: Al Aqah on 22-Feb-2013 and 12-Apr-2013

22-February-2013

Al Aqah mesmerized me last time and I promised myself that I will visit again but this time to capture sunrise. On 22-Feb early morning (5.30am) I bid adieu to my weekend sleep, left for Al Aqah with my friend and this time my new D600 accompanied me. 

We were there on time and had the allowance for setup. Mr. Sun started to rise from the confluence of sea and horizon. 

It is difficult for me to choose only one and show here. I captured a series of snaps and posted them here in sequence. Reflection of rising sun on Hajar mountains on the opposite side was beautiful too.

Leaving the bed early was beautiful and obviously fruitful. Another good Friday!

12-April-2013

I woke-up early to see the sunrise in Al Aqah again and headed straightway with one of my colleagues. Nature is not always in your disposal to fulfill your wish! It was a heavily clouded morning - so no sunrise. But nature never let someone to return from her door empty handed! Drama of clouds! This is one of my most favourites from UAE.

On Aqah beach we came across a Filipino family, they were collecting wild oysters from the rocks. Delicious weekend lunch!

Life is easy with a caring partner

Al Aqah! see you soon. High resolution images are in flickr.

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Al Hayle and test shot with D600

01-Feb-2013: Al Hayle

It was weekend (Friday) and I did not wake up early to go for a photo walk what I usually do with my colleagues/friends on Friday early mornings. Rather we decided to go out after lunch. It was not winter anymore in Fujairah neither hotty summer, the temperature was pretty much bearable but the day was little bit overcasted. 

Weekend destination was set to Al Hayle castle, around 10.0 km from the city through the Al Hayle industrial area and mountains - the oldest fort in UAE. We (me and my colleague - just 2 of us) started after having our lunch at around 3.00 pm with our bi-cycles. 

We crossed the Al Hayle industrial area and entered in hilly area, the road was no more in plain - high high and higher. The sky was in non-cooperation mood. We were in 2.0 km radius of the fort after going through small villages and welcomed by darkness and storm

For the above image I combined the exposures, that's why it looks much brighter but the reality was more darker.

This was our camera setup for the first image. From this point we decided to go back - we did not dared to go through the storm. May be next time!

On our way back (the return journey was much much easier as we were coming down) in the industrial area, we met an abandoned ship (actually a mini boat) named Perkasa II from Port Kelang

We met him on our out bound  journey as well but in night it was more dramatic, the day time snap comes here

We were physically exhausted after 15.0 km (approx) of cycling.

20-Feb-2013: Test shot with D600

On 9-Feb I received my D600, then I just tested some blank shots with the camera and was reading the manual to get familiar with the controls. But no serious shots and I missed the last weekend photo walk. So D600 was not used for anything major.

On 20-Feb after returning from office I saw a beautiful sky through my window and I could not resist myself from capturing it

The sky was really so colorful and dramatic like this, I merged the exposures here to present the reality as much as possible. 

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