Dubai Creek at Twilight

View of Dubai Creek from Bur Dubai side, at twilight. Dubai creek is one of the place which is crowded most in the evening, where people come to relax and refresh.

Full moon - Dubai Creek (26-Sep-2007)

I visited my friend – Nithin Kurien to see his newly bought Canon EOS 400D. My Canon PowerShot S2 IS was in my office bag as usual. Then when we took our cameras out and went to his apartment’s balcony to see the wonderful full moon rise over the buildings that decorate the Dubai Creek. I tried photos with various shutter speed time and came these results from my Canon PowerShot S2 IS. The above photo is taken with a shutter speed of 15 seconds and aperture of F8.0, ISO50 and manual focus mode.

You can see the trail of a flight that took off from Dubai International airport in the bottom left quadrant that flew across the angle of view during the long exposure. The blinking light gave in-between white spots to the trail as you see in the above picture. You can see a small trail of another flight, in the photograph below.

Cooler view of Hot Dubai

The first and third picture is taken using a circular polarizer attached to the built-in lens of PowerShot S2 IS. I felt a lot of improvement in the color contrast of the sky and water using the polarizer. These pictures are taken from near the Dubai Creek, from the Bur Dubai side. This place is very near to the hotel Ambassador where I was staying then.

Some birds spotted near the creek side. In fact there are a lot of birds near the Creek and in the entire Dubai even though the climate is hot. The sea next to Dubai feeds them what ever happens in the desert.

You can see the water drops sprayed from the peak of the bird in the third picture, when it tries to clean its food.

With and without polarizer

Another Rainy Day In Duabi