2007-01-29
Weekend photo roundup
I took quite a few photos this weekend, so I'm going to jump right to it.

Actually this morning was pretty foggy outside, so I grabbed this shot, about 9 am:


Anyway, this weekend Liz and I drove all over Dubai. Over by Ikea is the Al Badia Hillside Village (crummy Flash website). Of course, this being flat-flat Dubai they have to physically construct the hill in order to make a hillside village. Crazy.


We also went to Karama, an older section of Dubai over by the Creek. In Karama there are lots of cheap low-rise apartments, with first floor shops dealing in all sorts of goods - counterfeit and not.

Anyway, this one shop we went into had some Iraqi dinars on sale. I should have asked how much they were. Instead, I took a picture:


Over the break when we were in the States I bought a new cheapo camera, one with a unusually wide-angled plastic lense. The Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim. It takes pretty cool photos, which only enboldened me to get even weirder and try cross-processing - taking slide film and developing it like you would negative film, thus getting high contrast and crazy color combinations. You know, kind of like a Tony Scott movie.

Anyway, here's Sheikh Zayed Road:


Here's the Burj Dubai construction:


The increase in contrast made the reflections in the windshild all the more apparent. Next time I'll roll the window down.

If you want to see a few more of my cross-processed shots, and a few normal ones with the Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim, check out my Flickr pages:

posted by Josh @ 1:48 PM  

Josh and Liz are two American kids who got married in August. Liz has lived in Dubai since 2003, Josh since August of 2006.

Follow along in the culture shock of being recently married and (for Josh, at least) recently transplanted to Dubai.


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