Momentary Awe | Travel photography blog

Full moon over Dubai

Catalin — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:23:02 +0000

First of all I apologize for the slow updates, but the last few days have been extremely busy. Also, because I have been quite busy, I haven’t had the chance to shoot much personal stuff in Dubai over the last few weeks. However, I did want to post some Dubai images and while I was [...]

Crossing the river

Catalin — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:58:11 +0000

Every year when summer arrives in Dubai (yes, it’s already 40 Celsius outside!), my mind starts to wonder, thinking about all the places with better weather that I could be enjoying. Photography in Dubai over the summer also slows down a lot so I get a chance to post more images from my recent (and [...]

Through the wall

Catalin — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:35:59 +0000

One thing I love about traveling through Iran is the fact that in many places things seem to have stayed just the way they were hundreds of years ago. Take the mosques as an example. They are not just some inaccessible historical monuments, but they are places that are used on a daily basis, places [...]

The floating city

Catalin — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:56:38 +0000

The morning of October 18th last year was a very good morning for photography. It provided me with what is (so far) my most popular image and with many others that show Dubai in a way not seen very often. The image below was also taken during that same morning and since the fogs seem [...]

Sardinian coastline

Catalin — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:26:28 +0000

Moving on from models in the water type of images (see the previous post if you don’t know what I’m on about), I thought I’ll post a calming seascape as I can never get enough of those. The image below was taken close to the town of Alghero in Sardinia on a beautiful evening just [...]

Unexpected Hatta

Catalin — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:40:41 +0000

Although I haven’t posted model images for quite a while now, those of you who have been following the blog for a while, will know that from time to time I go on shoots to experiment with off-camera lights in order to improve my artificially lit portrait photography skills. The best way to experiment with [...]

Beautiful Dubai #4

Catalin — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:52:42 +0000

Usually I’m not one for centering my subjects in a photograph as I prefer much more the use of the rule of thirds (for those of you that don’t know what that is – it’s a rule about placing your subject at the intersection of one of the lines that split the image in 3 [...]

Double vision

Catalin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:22:40 +0000

This is one of those images about which I’m having a lot of trouble coming up with lots of things to say. I’ve already mentioned quite a few things about the dog sledding I did while in the North of Norway in this and this post. Even the post-processing for this image was not very [...]

The Business Bay

Catalin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:01:44 +0000

When I ran the photography workshop last week, one of the problems we had was the thin layer of sand in the air, which made photography quite challenging, particularly when trying to photograph the whole Dubai skyline. So we quickly switched locations for the blue hour, moving in closer to the Business Bay area in [...]

On fire

Catalin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:07:00 +0000

Having just run my photography workshop this weekend in a sand-filled air that obliterated pretty much any colour out of the sky, I started dreaming of the proverbial “greener photographic pastures”, or in this case, skies filled with beautiful clouds, that reflect on the ocean, while the setting sun makes everything look like it’s on [...]