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Business Bay Area downtown just next to the Dubai Mall A great area to walk around and take evening pictures. The area has luxury hotels, business towers and residential towers. Its extremely clean and safe to walk there regardless of time of day whilst t...  

Sometimes I think that if I lived there then I’d miss the seasons (e.g. spring and fall)…but I wouldn’t be surprised if they developed a technology and infrastructure that would enable changing seasons in a section of the city. Come experience a white Chr... 

Well for a white Christmas you can go to Mall of the Emirates with an indoor ski facility where it is minus 5 Celsius and real snow

Outside it can be plus 50, go thru double door to enter the mall and it’s 23. Go thru the next double door and it’s minus 5 See photo (credit Ski Resort) ...  

But your shots reminded me somewhat to Singapore

Maybe same city planners.

Architecture, iconic buildings etc But Singapore has real rain with real trees haha

On a side note. Pls be vigilant in Dubai for watch crooks. A syndicate contacted me last week to ask if she could buy my watch which I repeatedly told her I was not selling. I referred her to purchase from the ADs there but she seemed fishy in having no i... 

Obviously despite having a real low crime rate its not 100% crime free. But jewelry robberies are new to me (in Dubai that is). Would appreciate to receive your pm

and nice star patterns in that first photo. ND filter? The still water makes a great reflection - location, location, location... Casey .

Indeed the ND filter was used. I discovered that even at night time it is nice to be able to increase shutter speed. The star in the light: could be from the new filter but on photos without that filter the star is there as well. I could be wrong but I’ve... 

Lenses with an odd number of aperture blades will create stars with double the star points and lenses with an even number of aperture blades will create an equal number of star points. Thus a lens with nine blades will create stars with 18 points... and a...