Moving to Blogger

My friend Hamed says that my JuxtBlog theme doesn't go well with my Juxtapoza site layout. I think this blogger black theme can do. Let's see if this change is worth the effort. I sort of believe in Google, so maybe it's about time to move to some ready-made content management/publishing system without applying custom changes.. I am putting my previous self-hosted WordPress based blog on hold until I figure out a way to import its content to Blogger or maybe to just leave it accessible as an ex-blog with no further updates.

Collective shots from the past.. months, year?


Shots from last March, mainly in Doha where I spent most of my time..

Weam and Suhail from our office in Bahrain happened to be in Doha during my stay there, I joined them for sheesha and tea one evening.. with my little baby Canon.

Showing Suhail how to shoot wide open.. this one came out nice.

Almost every Saturday for the past 5-6 months I used to spend time in Doha Airport before my flight back home.. Costa's cafe was the best place to hang out until departure time, and there was Liz who once asked me to take a photo of her..
And she liked the idea so she was like posing for like three Saturdays in a row.. she always was the one choosing the background, and the same pose.
I got fooled by the impression of quietness and emptiness of this terminal so many times, once I try to sleep I either get a bunch of teems yelling and playing around me, or some cleaners with their huge machines to clean the floor underneath my feet.. I chose deserted seats, and they are many like you can see.. but it never works.
Liz again!


Rafik and Mais..



Danny me friend came on vacation to the UAE for the first time last Feb. Not much of what I post here but photos are what matter the most! And some photos came out nice.. Made me feel like a tour guide and a personal photographer.. heh.

Didn't know there are such places in the UAE. On the way to Dibba Al Fujairah.
I find this shot funny.
Akram, Danny, Sham and Maya.. clockwise.
A pussycat, with the shadow if a tiger ;)

Fun with shadows.. I like shadows..

I think this building was Dubai Intercontinental, I was waiting for a friend at Dubai Festival City Waterfront and the almost perfect reflection was so tempting.. very cliche, still I like how this shot came out. Mr. Mandou, tmandou.. he works now for Microsoft and here he was trying to defend and convince that MS services can compete and be up to the level of Google's.. yeah right ;)
Hamed listening, not so convinced..
And even though we all studied together, and were in the same major.. I tend to find such talks boring sometimes. Playing around with my 28mm lens wide open at f/1.8 was more fun to me.Or creating some nice 'bokeh' out of Tarek behind this heavenly drink, until they get out of the topic.

The following were shot the day when I watched 'I Am Legend'.. what a movie. This is Khaled, the most talented guitarist I know in person, too bad his job in top-end security domains and watching too much southpark doesn't leave him time to compose more good music.
Playing around with focus, shuffling between Kahled and the blondie behind him.. she fired up her laptop and started chatting online..
This is how you know people are chatting or interacting with others online, funny facial expressions.. we all do it, you can't deny it. The 50mm would've been prefect for these shots.

I get nice upgrades in the hotels I stay at when traveling for work. I think I've stayed in this very same room like 5 times. Ramada Plaza Doha, Room 465. My managers shouldn't see these photos ;)
Andy.. my uber boss. In our office in Bahrain. He shouldn't be seeing this either.. but I have to take his permission, he's special!

Shot in December '07. We lived nearly 7 years in this building.. funny years, and it was interesting see how horrible some people painted their walls from the inside ;)




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