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Amused

07 Sunday Jun 2015

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Traveling with bigger kids is such a walk in the park. They carry their own books and reading them every waking moment. They can entertain themselves without bothering me at all 😉

Here is another shot of our transit in Istanbul.

Shot with iPhone 5S

 

 

The street vendors of Istanbul

21 Monday Jul 2014

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I was pleasantly surprised to see the size of watermelons being sold by the street vendors here. It was humongous! I didn’t take a good picture of whole watermelon, but from the last picture, you can estimate the size before it was cut. And from the amount of people continuously buying it, clearly watermelon is a favourite summer fruit here.

Among the 3, my favourite picture is the 1st one, where I successfully pan the vendor while he was walking away from the police who suddenly appeared. I love how sharp the oranges are, while the vendor and the background are blurry.

All are shot with Canon 50D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L

 

 

Wudhu

11 Friday Jul 2014

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Within the compound of Blue Mosque, Istanbul, this row of faucets are used to perform wudhu (partial ablution), the Islamic procedure for washing parts of the body using water, typically in preparation for formal prayers (shallat).

Shot with Canon 50D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L, shot in AV @ 1/400, f/4, focal length 455mm, ISO 400