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Photo of the month
This is one of my favourites from while I was in Abu Dhabi. I haven’t done any digital processing to the image – the effect was achieved by taking this photo through the dirty window of a pet shop with a strong yellow light behind me from a streetlamp.
This poor bird was kept in a petshop near the old port, and I thought it was such a sad sight to see this magnificent creature trapped in this squalid setting.
Photo taken with my Nikon D40 and kit lens, set to ISO 1,000 for a grainy effect in the low light.
Photography
Alongside writing my debut novel, gaining post-graduate qualifications and learning a language, 2009 was to be the year I moved beyond ‘cautious amateur’ status as a photographer.
Sadly that hasn’t happened, apart from a slightly nerve-wracking invitation to be official photographer at a friend’s wedding. But I have got around to uploading some of my existing photographs on my flickr account.
Over the next couple of months my plan is to move beyond taking technically decent photographs of what I’m seeing, and to start investigating the very big, the very small, and everything inbetween for more interesting stories.
