Heads Up

A quick heads up - there's an exhibition of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photographs from Dubai-based photographer and photoblogger Catalin Marin (Momentary Awe is his blog, BTW) at JamJar in Al Quoz tonight. Here's the location info if you don't know JamJar. It's being put together by printer company Oki Printing Solutions (Oki is a client, just so's we're all clear) and is open to the public from 6pm-8pm.

Thanks to an idea from Rambling blogging and PR person Mita yesterday, we're going to be auctioning off a signed high definition print of one of Catalin's most popular images, After the Storm in aid of MSF in Haiti.

Err... that's it. Just thought I'd share.

My City. My Metro.

Took a round trip at 6am in the morning and loved it. Very cool!! Can't wait for the Green line to start near my house... :D

Ramadan Kareem.... :)

JBR Photography

Some snaps from Jumeira Beach Residence...






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A Small Refresher...

Green Community, Dubai

Green Community, Dubai

Just a small refresher for the blog...
Something for the summer to keep our minds off Salik.

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Dubai photos from 1975-1980

An anonymous commenter linked to this site (www.anitavanderkrol.com); It is worth checking it out for some brilliant photographs of old Dubai.

As explained on the site itself...

"Between 1975 and 1980 Anita van der Krol-van Hasselt (1946) from the Netherlands took hundreds of black and white photographs of everyday life in the Dubai area.
Living as an expat in Jumeirah, she became one of the first inhabitants of Jebel Ali village. The wife of a Dutch dredging engineer who worked on the Creek, Port Rashid and Mina(harbour)Jebel Ali, Anita was in a unique position to shoot intimate pictures of Arab men, women and children. She managed to win their confidence and respect and their permission to be photographed.

Since its date of origin Anita's B&W photographs have rapidly become part of Dubai's national history, because of the country's sweepingly fast development over the last decades. These selected photographs offer a rare insight into the inherent culture of Dubai just before the town started changing into the shiny metropolis we see emerging today.

The Bedouin photographs from the desert must have been among the last taken, before this entire population group gave up their nomadic existence and settled down near the town."