Week Nineteen

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This is a cake I saw at a local bakery in Abu Dhabi.

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I was packed for the trip home and when I came back in the bedroom, I found Artem's monkey had been put into my purse.


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No picture today, since I was halfway over the Atlantic ocean. :)

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Clearly the jet lag is bothering Artem and he is NOT in the mood to have his picture taken.

Week Eighteen

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We rented this bikes one night and rode the Corniche. It was a major workout for mom and dad while Artem rode easy in the front seat yelling, "Faster, Faster!"

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After taking Artem to WOMAD, he wants to play the drum everyday.

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Randy working in the kitchen. Photographing food is not that easy despite the fact that it literally just sits there.

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Benches at a local stadium.

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Remember a couple weeks ago I posted two pictures on here of how vibrant the sky and ground were on Earth day? This would be the opposite. This isn't a bad dust storm, just a windy day blowing junk around. Oh, one more thing, I took these pictures about 3:30 in the afternoon, not at night like it looks.

Week Seventeen

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Mmmm...chocolate and granola!


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Yours truly!


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Busted!


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You just can't pass up a puddle!


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I discovered a hidden treasure, a free spray park across the street from our flat.

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I could spread those cheeks on a cracker and eat them!

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This one is getting framed when I get back to the states!

Week Sixteen

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Puzzles are now the hit in our house!


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I got out of the shower one day and found Artem in one of his toy tubs singing, happy as a clam.


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I saw the moon on our walk home (our building is on the right) and thought it was neat the way it was peaking between the buildings.


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Cars are the big thing for Emiratis. The faster, shinnier, more expensive, the better. This new Lamborghini was parked outside the Ministry of Education. Go figure?!

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The next day at breakfast, we saw someone's Rolls Royce parked up front in the "special lot". Wonder why they didn't park our Mercury Mountaineer in this parking lot??

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Wanna guess who dressed Artem today?

Week Fifteen

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Just practicing taking low-light pictures without a flash. I took this as the sun was almost gone and behind a building, but was practicing with different ISO settings.


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Nothing fancy, just the low light settings again.

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Emirates Presidential Palace. I could have stayed here all day taking pictures. Absoultely beautiful!!

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I can't pick one picture for this day. These are SOC shots and I did not do any touchups whatsoever, as evidenced by the dust on my sensor (which I'll get cleaned when I get back to the states). Anyway, this is Earth Day and I don't think mother nature could have given us a prettier day to experience. The colors today were sooooo vibrant!!

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I love photographing strong, old trees.

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I made it to 100! Woo hoo!

We went to Heritage Village and even though it was closed, it still provided me some great things to photograph.

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Week Fourteen

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At my photography class we were practicing "panning" where you focus on one bright item (like a red car) and move the camera with it as it moves. It turns out really cool, the one red car is focussed while the rest of the cars are streaked. So the instructor tells us that the day we practice panning, we won't be able to find a red car, it'll only be dull color cars. He told us we'd wait forever but won't find a bright car. He jinxed me!! The day I tried to practice panning, I waited...and waited...and waited, but no bright cars. I finally snapped this picture because I thought it was so funny that I couldn't find a bright car just like my instructor said.

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Plumeria on my kitchen table.

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Practicing night photography without a flash. Still have a long way to go. A tripod would help too!

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This is just a random picture that I found amusing. A whole display of American flags in the middle of Abu Dhabi.

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This boat washed up onshore while I was taking pictures of Artem playing in the sand. It practically begged me to take it's picture.


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The key to any good party...FOOD!

Week Thirteen

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My goal this week was to practice shooting plants and flowers. At my photography course in Dubai my instructor suggested we pick one thing for the week and take pictures of only that subject, so by the end of the week we'll be better at that particular subject.


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Boy vs. Stairs...Stairs 1, Boy 0


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Yes, I know he's not a plant, but how could you pass up that face?