The Wall

I did the same picture in my first post. Since I like this, however, I'm doing it full justice with the large size. Up to this point I've been posting through my Flickr archives with newer posts having older pics. From here on out new posts should be newer pics. I'll post as often as I feel I have a shot worth talking about.

This shot was conceived as a shot to be cropped to just the geometric bit of the wall. When I saw the scan, though, I liked the entire composition and this is the entire film frame. The interest here was on the light and how it revealed the patina and texture on this wall as well as the geometric pattern.

Oman Camels

Some camels we passed on the road during our road trip to Oman last year. Oman is an amazing place and hard to capture on film. I think this provides a taste of the somewhat desolate grandeur of the place.

Sunset over Grassy Knoll

Another photo with a simple colour palette and a simple graphical composition. This is part of a new park behind a large shopping centre in Doha called Hyatt Plaza.

Min • i • mal • ism

This is a case of seeing a photo in something ordinary. The picture shows some roof beams but they have been rotated to appear as columns. The simple geometry broken by the imperfection of the last column is the attraction for this photo.

CMU-Q Fountain and Depth of Field

This is what I sometimes term a "lens" shot. It's taken with my "fast" telephoto. The term fast refers to a lens that has a wide maximum aperture, in this case f2.8. This is what gives the shallow depth of field with most of it blurred. The other thing that makes this shot is the great midday light that day. It was taken the same day as the fountain shot in the previous post.

Fountain at CMU-Q

This is on the newly built campus of Carnegie Melon University in Qatar next to Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar in Education City. This is one of those shots that shows that rules are for breaking. This great light was midday light which everyone will tell you to avoid. It's not the greatest composition in the world but I love the light on the leaves.

Lines

This is a BW conversion of some sun beams on a wall at CMU-Q. This is for me a good example of "improving on reality". The way what I saw struck me didn't really come across in the colour versions I tried. This satisfies my vision even though it is obviously now devoid of colour and much higher in contrast and darker.