Monday, January 21, 2013

Musandam trip

This week I went to Musandam (in Oman) as my office arranged a day outing for all staffs. Obviously some photos of the trip are waiting for you but this time the photos are not output of my favorite D5100, they are children of my new Samsung Note II. I wanted to test the camera of this mobile, ofcourse not against tough low light condition but in moderate day light. 

We started from Fujairah at 9.0 'o clock in the morning, after almost one hour of bus ride we reached Oman. all of our papers were already submitted to the authority, so it took few minutes in the border (it is a common tourist activity between the two countries).




We started our offshore journey from this point, the weather was very pleasant - soothing cold breeze and comforting bright sunlight.


After an hour of roaming enjoyment in the Strait of Hormuz we took a halt for some activities.

A small beach where we enjoyed swimming and bit snorkeling
Banana ride was arranged as well (though very slow!)



By the time we finished all these activities lunch was served and we were very hungry.


This is how we had our lunch!
Post-lunch session was for some relaxing happy moments, smiling faces were all around.









Some (uncensored!) dancing activities:



Some photographic activities:



Some fishing activities (it was not large scale activity for fishing, just for some entertainment and we caught only one):



Done! all the activities are over and it was time to return. 

Relaxing moment





We reached shore by 4.0 'o clock, it was a good 5 hours of offshore entertainment. We came across fish market in the jetty.




On our way back to Fujairah, we utilized the journey with a small nap.



At Khor Fakkan we greeted good bye for the day to Mr. Sun


Around 6.00 pm we were back to pavilion. Overall it was a good outing - refreshing for all. Thanks to our company management.

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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Exploring Festival city


Hello friends, hopefully you all are having a very good time in the new year. In 2012, I made sure that all my photos taken in 2012 are published here - I succeeded 99%. That lack of 1% happened because one set of photos I could not manage to process and publish - Festival city. Finally they will be here now.

250 degree panorama of Festival city
The above panorama feats the Business Bay bridge, Garhoud bridge behind of that, Burj Khalifa, Intercontinental hotel and ofcourse the Festival city.

Festival city after a Light-n-Sound show
180 degree panorama of Festival city
View of Business bay bridge (Garhoud bridge in the background as well) from Festival city
Friends are having a good time there!
Another panorama featuring Business bay bridge in left and Garhoud bridge in right



A cruise passing under the Business Bay bridge
Under the Business Bay bridge
Crown plaza, Festival city

See high resolution images here in flickr.

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Happy New Year 2013

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2013. Love and peace for all. Hopefully you all had a great time on new year's eve and the new year started with a good note.

I went to Dubai after office, the plan was to capture Fire works of Burj Khalifa. There were millions of people who had the same wish (atleast to watch the beauty if not to capture). It was a big fight to reach a good location. Finally we (me with my friends) decided to go to Business Bay area instead of the Dubai mall / Downtown area - with an expectation of relatively less crowd and a good view. 

I managed to get these images of the spectacular fire works:




Honestly, these are not amongst the best images which you could possibly find on web upon searching, but these are the best what I could manage on that occasion. 

In the images and the video, you can see the crowd - now multiply the crowd with thousand, that was the reality and we experienced them on our way back. Anyways, it was a good experience overall. During set-up and waiting period, I tried to capture one more time lapse sequence, result in flickr.

On 1st of January, we went to Dubai mall to celebrate one of my very close friend's birthday, this time the crowd was negligible as compared to what we experienced 12 hours before.

Panorama of Dubai mall from Souk-Al-Bahar
We were celebrating in TGI Friday on 2nd level of Dubai mall, the location of this restaurant is simply superb - it is at the highest level of the Dubai mall and facing the fountain and Souk-Al-Bahar. Not only the location, the menu and food quality as compared to the price is just great.

Souk-Al-Bahar from TGI Friday, Dubai mall

Souk-Al-Bahar from TGI Friday, Dubai mall
The fountain show from TGI Friday is a splendid beauty




Once again, wish you all a very happy 2013 - filled with joy, love and peace.

See high resolution images here in flickr.

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