Our Family Portraits

On my last article I've posted pictures taken by our brothers. Now I am posting some of my shots and my wife's shots. Photos are taken from my Nikon F60. I just felt a bit disappointed at the scanned film results because it would seem like my films were scraped and had some white dots on it, probably their film scanner is so dirty (grrrr!!). I'm never coming back there again even if they were the closed in the neighborhood. It's a good thing Adobe Photoshop has some cool effects to hide those scrapes and dots, I just made used of them to compliment with the damage (sigh! still disappointed).

Would you believe they have Nikon D90 and Nikon D7000 shortage (forgot this word) here in Jeddah, the shopkeeper told me most buyers were Filipinos. Anyways, if it is time for me to have my own DSLR, I'll have it. So here are our family portraits.

I love how he smiles, good thing my hands aren't shaky.

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Photography in KSA

You remember my post about Saudi Arabia's tourism entitled "Are They Really Ready for Tourism?" where I have blurted out all my frustrations about photography in Saudi Arabia - I think they have read it (just kidding). Well, a fellow blogger (thanks Ron!) posted in Facebook about the good news. They have a law where anyone can take pictures as long as there isn't any no picture taking signs posted in the area. Now, I won't be afraid to take pictures anymore as long as I bring the document I'll be sharing you guys.

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