Cairo Photowalk – A big opportunity missed
I use this blog to share my thoughts, opinions and journey. I try to be honest, I try to be balanced and I try as much as possible to be positive and upbeat. However just occasionally there is also the need to share accounts of things that are perhaps less perfect, in the sincere hope [...]
Are you in denial? Is Cairo just a pretension?
Thankfully my day job is not as a comedian. Sorry! The “de-Nile” joke is pretty over used isn’t it, but its late and I needed something for the title. I bet Google would have preferred something different too! Last week, I announced the launch of the Cairo Photo Tours, part of a new and active [...]
Whirling Dervishes in Cairo
Every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday night the Al–Tannoura traditional dance Troup perform their spectacle of music and whirling dervish dance to 250 lucky guests shows in the Wekalata el-Ghouri Arts centre in Cairo. The tickets for these are free as both the location is owned by and the Troup employed by the Egyptian Ministry of [...]
Why location, luck and gear is not enough
When I first started taking photography seriously about 18 months a go I naively thought that taking a powerful portrait – particularly travel or street portraiture – was really just because the fulltime photographer was always in an exotic place, with a great camera and of course in those type of locations you really just [...]
How to make Blurb Bookshow widget work in WordPress
I was invited to trial the about-to-be launched Blurb BookShow widget – a great little application that allows you to embed a preview of your Blurb book in your blog or website page, thus helping to raise that book’s profile and also in providing the opportunity for up-sell. I cut and pasted the code as [...]
Off-camera flash and reflectors – a day of learning
I don’t know if you are anything like me, but if I am really uncomfortable with something I always find an excuse to put it off or give something else a higher priority. I justify to myself that this is really me being efficient – giving focus to the “must do” tasks and deprioritizing the “should [...]
Proof that panning shots are art not science
Following my post yesterday on 10 tops tips for panning I thought I had better go and swallow some of my own medicine and practice some panning. I had a free couple of hours this morning, so I went out into the chaos that is mid-morning Cairo, and stood on a street corner for a [...]
What price a camel in Birquash Camel Market
Practice , practice, practice… Not always easy when a camel is spitting in your face and all over your lens. I spent the morning at Birquash Camel Market – the “new” home of Cairo’s famous camel Souk and about 15 kms north west of the city. Now you should take the word “new” here with [...]
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