April's low budget photowalk

The 30 days of April will not pass without a photowalk. Since funds were running low, Macko and I decided to walk all the way to Sharjah's Gold souks just to ease our photography craving. Since the sun was still too bright and we had night shots in mind, we decided to check out the souk.

In the Souk, we found a couple of stalls that got my attention because of what they were selling: camera accessories and lenses and a line of multitools and knives produced by the Leatherman Tool Group- my two addictions in one shop! I was thankfull I had no cash or else, it would have been harder to practice temperance to the limit.

Night has fallen when we started shooting. Light trails and ghost-like figures of people accented our frames. It was like a show-and-tell kind of shoot and whoever invented slow shutter speeds and sturdy Velbon sherpa tripods should have some credit for our output. With that said, I think our tripods deserve some trivia in this page. Macko uses a Velbon Sherpa 200R And I got a Velbon Sherpa 600R. Why Velbon? It is cheaper than the Monfrottos (yeah, right!) The name comes from the fact that in Japanese the r and l sound is actually the same. So the VEL in Velbon is partially from the Japanese pronunciation of VERy and the French word BON (which means good). These two words were combined as a new word and a new trademark: VELBON. It’s short for VERY GOOD! (taken from their Official site)

We walked to get different angles and subjects.

On the east side of the Souk stands a trio of pencil-like towers. I remember shooting a wedding in one of the fine-dining restaurants here last December.

It was getting late and we thought it was time to separate ways. I then decided to walk home along the Corniche to take more shots.

It was 11 pm when I got home. time to call it a night. Going over this month's only photowalk expense: a can of ice-cold Dr. Pepper- aed 3.95. Not bad at all.