Light and colors – these two make or break the ambience for me.
This photo was taken today at Dubai Mall’s “The Village” and converted into HDR using Photomatic for a surreal effect.
I’m adding a few more for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
Dubai design district recently hosted their open-to-public meetd3 event a couple of weeks back, and I had the privilege of (ab)using my camera to my heart’s content. With interactive installations by extraordinary artists and plenty of activities for adults and kids alike, it was a must-attend event; I blew my first ever glass globe thingy and it was amazing.
Here’s a glimpse of meetd3 and the Dubai Design District through my lens. Enjoy!
For girls, it’s all about accessories. Their love for color and sense of style start to develop at a very tender age; for my daughter, it was at about one-and-a-half years. Her shoe collection is ten times the size of mine (which consists of 4 pairs of shoes, a couple of sandals and a pair of slippers) and she loves her accessories as much as she loves her parents. I try spoiling her and I cannot resist the urge to buy stuff that I think she’ll enjoy wearing/using; at least 70% of my impulse buying results in a purchase for my lovely daughter.
A few days back, we happened to visit a local bazaar, a heaven for my now almost three-year-old Fatima. We came across these really neat bracelets made out of old telephone wires and I couldn’t help myself from buying them for her. Pink’s her favorite color and purple’s mine, and since most of her clothes belong to one of these two color-groups, this purchase was a no-brainer.
Hope these photos can inspire all of us to recycle and possibly ignite a spark of creativity.
Besides the occasional doodle, the last time I diligently drew something was a human heart for my high-school biology class (or was that a map of Pakistan for Pakistan Studies?). Honestly, I have never given sketching a second thought, until a few days back, when sitting idle with a pencil and a sketch pad, I had this weird itch to draw something. The first thing that came to mind was a version of a simple Pakistani girl, her hair tightly braided into a traditional pigtail, looking out towards the horizon at endless possibilities, wondering what the future may hold for her.
I know it’s amateurish and lacks any finesse, but I am proud of it nonetheless. Enjoy!
Photography is all about light and capturing its interaction with objects around us. So essentially when we take a photo, we try merging light with the object of our fascination. For this week’s theme, I tried doing something different, mixing elements of light with some everyday decoration pieces and an empty bottle of maple syrup. What came out was dramatic and mesmerizing, almost what you’d see while hallucinating. Hope you guys enjoy it.
Hallucinations
Insanity at its best! 