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Here is a list of all the photos I published in 2015

Shot from the same location, but at four different times of the year. Going clockwise, starting from the top left, we have some thick fog, followed by some lightning, after which is some heavy rain clouds and finally, a thick cloud of dust caused by a sand storm.

Wuhoo! A couple of months ago, I shot some photos at the Deira Fish Market and they just got featured on one of my favourite photography sites: letstravelsomewhere.com

This was taken outside a toy store on a recent trip to Singapore

Clean as a whistle is a minimalistic wordpress theme designed to show off your content. It adds focus to your text and images, is easy to use,  has a couple of options you can customize and is absolutely free to download and install. After the success of “White as milk“, this theme uses a newer web framework that should make updating and customising these theme a whole lot easier.

After you install the theme, you can go to Appearance > Theme options to tweak the theme. If you find any bugs or have comments about the theme, please let me know.

Download “Clean as a whistle”

Road Inc is a must have app if you own an iPad. Its an app thats sort of like an interactive coffee table book that showcases classic cars. You download tours of individual cars which includes a 360 degree view and a brief history about the car. A definite must have for any car enthusiast with an iPad.

One of my favorite applications that I use all the time is Adobe Lightroom. After trying out almost every popular photo-managment software including iPhoto, Picasa and Aperture, it was pretty obvious that Lightroom was the robust choice to handle my 60GB+ worth of photos. One of the coolest features I like about Lightroom is that you can buy and download Lightroom presets. These presets can be programmed to do anything from converting a photo to black-and-white, removing grain and dust or just enhancing and sharpening dull or darkened photos, all with a single click. You can find a few presets on The Bell Sisters website.

The one preset that I love the most and probably use on almost all my photos is “Punch”. Its a default preset that comes with Lightroom and can be found towards the bottom of the Lightroom presets list. Punch basically takes any photo you give it, and bumps the “Clarity” level on the photo by 50 points and the “Vibrance” level by 25 points. This removes some of the dullness or gray-ness of the photo that you might have inherited especially if you have shots taken in a cloudy environment and makes it, in my opinion, the easiest way to cleanup a photo.

I’ve been trying to read more lately. After a few recommendations, I’ve managed to pick up quite a few books this month to add to my reading list.

I mounted my camera on a tripod and strapped it in the passengers seat and programmed the camera to take a photo every 3 seconds for 35 minutes while driving around Dubai. You can see the Mall of the Emirates (at 00:25) and the Burj Dubai on the right (at around 00:34).