Watermarks

I hate them!    Really, what’s your opinion? If I am to sell stock photos and I publish them on high resolution, they will be watermarked for a reason, but why people keep damaging their photographs on blogs, portfolio pages etc since the images are resized for the web anyway? And come on, who’s going to steal your beach photo and print a billdboard out of it? I didn’t see watermarks on the famous and talented photographer’s pages, they pop out mostly out of the sites that noone seems to visit and still I find it so annoying.

Do you watermark your photographs and why ?

That’s me by the way, I thought it is finally time to post my photo

Burj Dubai Downtown at night

 

                     

  

Bastakiya

Bastakiya at night. The traffic. Old buildings. True arabic atmosphere!

Burj Dubai view

Dubai mall

Most of my photos as you can see are done at night. These are some of the small % recent day photos. This is just part of Dubai mall, I took them on my way back from an assignment, so next time I go there I will share something different. “Around the City” is created to show what I see to all you people who don’t live in Dubai and to the rest who live there but don’t visit those places.

I used Adobe Photoshop filters to enhance the pictures and will be happy to discuss details if anyone is intereted. Croped, resized, sharpened and posted here for you :)

 

Dubai mall coffee shops & restaurants

floors

Ice Ring 01

Ice ring 02

Atlantis Hotel

Yesterday, 24th Sep 09 was the 1st Anniversary of Atlantis Hotel & I went for the celebration in Aquaventure park.

      

             

 

Jumeirah Beach Hotel

          Photos from Jumeirah Beach hotel on my way back from Iftar dinner photo shoot.

It is a very beautiful place & one of the best locations for taking photos of Burj Al Arab (my previous post).

I love pools, I didn’t have a chance to swim since longtime and the pool photo makes me happy when I look at it. The second image is the hotel, the third one is showing the outdoor chess play area.

Burj Al Arab colours

   

 

Of course, Burj Al Arab hotel changes in many more colours than blue & pink, but I am posting only those two. This is part of my “around the city” project.

Raffles

          Raffles hotel in Wafi City Dubai.

Escalator

Again Festival City, Intercont – one of the escalators.

Sometimes I find beautiful pictures on my way back from the assignment, that’s why I keep my camera ready until I get to the car.

Note: Photo edit – croped, resized & sharpened.