The last trip I took before leaving Dubai was a roadtrip up to Mussandam, Oman with some good friends. We went a traditional dhow-type boat and chased dolphins in the morning until reaching our snorkeling destination. It was a fantastic weekend. Here are some of the pics.
[thanks to Hind, Will, Noora, Khalid, and Rabie for […]
Everything is good here. I’ve been staying in a house right on the beach in Playa Guapile, about 6km north of Dominical. A friend of friends rented it until the middle of the month, but went home last week and gave it to me for free. The house is huge, but very basic. I’ve got […]
I organized and tagged all the photos from last year’s Kerala, India trip and uploaded to Flickr. Turns out that yesterday’s broken image scare was a strange problem with either Costa Rica, the ISP, or this internet cafe causing nearly 50% of everyone’s photos to show up as broken images for me. Looks like all […]
I have been complete shit at post-processing, tagging, and organizing my photos in the last few months. I have tons of stuff from India, Musandam Oman, Beirut, Colombia, and now Costa Rica. I spent all day today working on the Colombia stuff and uploaded over a hundred decent images to this set.
One major problem […]
This brilliant photo of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, being struck by lightning either proves there is a god, or proves there is not one, or proves there is one but it isn’t the one you believe in. I don’t know if this is ironic or poetic or biblical, but it sure […]
Polaroid has made no secret of the fact that they are planning to stop producing Polaroid film in favor of embracing their new digital future. Much like Kodak, they are betting that digital is the only future of photography. Of course, nothing will ever look quite as a good as a real Polaroid picture, but […]
Patrick Winfield makes composite images of many Poloroid photos of the same scene. The results are absolutely stunning.
[for hind.]
Where has the young, beautiful and talented Miss Lauryn Hill gone?
I didn’t write about it at the time, but a few months ago Lauryn Hill played here in Dubai and I had the unique pain of attending the concert. After several hours of delay due to throat illness or soreness or something, she came out […]
McDonald’s is in the middle of launching a Starbucks-like coffee shop called McCafe around the world. I don’t know if it will be popular or not but I do know that it will be about a year and a half before every other corner in NY is one of these fucking things. Here’s a photo […]
Martin Klimas creates the most beautiful photographs by destroying the most delicate and beautiful things. I am inspired by this work. Using really high shutter speeds, good lighting, and I assume a rapid fire trigger finger, he captures the moment as the ceramics burst apart. The one below is my favorite, but there are a […]
I’m not really a good photographer at all. Digital cameras offer me what they offer nearly every other hobbyist on the web - quality through quantity. My shot-to-halfway-decent-photo-ratio is about 10%, which means that for every 100 photos on Flickr, I have taken 1000. I have 1,308 photos on Flickr right now. That’s 130,800 photos […]
That’s how they say it. “Budapesht” even though hey spell it “pest”. Budapest. I snuck away to there last weekend for 5 days for a good friend’s wedding. A few people from Dubai were able to make it for the wedding and a few days of R&R. I took 1077 photos in 5 days. I […]