Not my favorite time of day to be shooting, but I took what I could get! Oh, and if you ever get an offer to sit on a camel, make sure you’ve negotiated the price BEFORE you get on, otherwise, it makes it hard to get off!

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

Pyramids || Canon10D/Tokina12-24@12mm | 1/125s | f11 | ISO100 | Tripod

As mentioned earlier in my blog, I had the chance to go to Egypt, and I think the next series will be from that trip.  This was the first day, shortly after we landed. I was experimenting with my new wide angle lens and my polarization filter, this is an example of what happens when you use a polarization filter on a wide angle lens and shoot wide , very deep dark in one corner. Not the best of lighting conditions for photographs, but they were simply incredible.