This was the first place we came after getting off the airplane, I was amazed at how close it was to Cairo, how the city surrounds the pyramids and how close our hotel was to them.

I learned a lesson about circular polarizing filters and wide angle lenses in this shot. The one I had doesn’t work so well the wider you go, if you go wide (12mm here) it provides some rather deep dark vignetting (the unnatural blue here). If you’re interested, here’s some good info about polarizers.

Update: Ok, ok… so I can’t believe that I double posted an image already. I’ll try to better about that