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Kickstarting 2011 with another attempt at a daily regular photo project.

This one was taken with a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini,  who needs a tripod for your DSLR camera when you have the infamous silicon Power Balance Bracelet!

present day tripod killer

A short and quick update:

Saaleha.com & Naeem.co.za have arrived in Saudi Arabia on the 26th October to perform Hajj 2010.   I’ve been posting up various cellphone photographs about our experiences as we go along. 

Visit the facebook photo album here

I’ll also be constantly tweeting to twitter under the #hajj2010 hashtag. 

We hope you enjoy our updates and inspire you to one day experience this beautiful journey.

well worn builders boots (sepia)

Already one week into my daily photo blog post project:) – Today’s pic is something quite different from the usual eastern & automotive sets.  We are currently renovating a massive showroom and during our inspection walks today I spotted this pair of well worn builders boots. It was literally asking to be photographed.

I moved them into position and placed the camera on the ground to get this angle. A significant amount of photoshop adjustments included cropping and converting into black & white as well as sepia. I’m leaning to the sepia version as my favorite but have posted all 3 into this post.

Exif data on the image: F10 at 1/15sec. ISO 100 with a 55mm focal length

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sunrise at the top of mount moosa

Decided to go through some past images from our trip to Egypt  earlier this year.  The images in this post were taken at the top of Mount Moosa (Jabel Moosa) in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Also known as Mount Sinai, Mount Horeb, Mount Musa, Jabal Musa. You can read more about this over at Wikipedia

It was quite an adventure getting to the top which starts with a 2 hour taxi drive at midnight. Then at about 2:30am, armed with a flashlight and light snacks you begin your hike to the top and push along to make it in time to witness the sunrise from the peak. Don’t expect to have any spiritual awakening here as you are joined with about 100+ tourists and dozens of Egyptian traders trying to sell you snacks and stones. Nevertheless, a tremendous experience and great photo opportunity.

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Going back to some automotive concepts, today’s daily photo is a long exposure shot of a tachometer & needle revving up.  I was hoping to get this Honda all the way to the red-line but alas, they dont make the 1.5l Honda’s like they used and all we could get was to 4500rpm.

I’m happy to say that, apart from a crop, absolutely zero photo editing or color adjustments were done.
Exif data : F9.9 at 4seconds on ISO 100 with a 135mm focal length.

honda rev counter