I Shoot People… Or How To Ask a Stranger to Pose for a Portrait.

Very few individuals feel confident photographing other people right away at the beginning of their journey. When you shoot a building and it doesn’t come out as it expected unlikely the building is going to tell you: “Delete! I look ugly!”… however, the security guy might tell you to delete it for other reasons. So […]

This is Our Time – EXPO 2020 Dubai.

“Welcome to EXPO, thanks for coming” – was the first words I heard when I stepped into the world of connecting minds and creating the future together on October 6, 2021 and I knew right there and then that I was going to return here plenty more times. I remember the day when Dubai had […]

Guns and Roses in Taif, Saudi Arabia

I have been dreaming of going to Taif since 2019, to smell the roses, to roam in the mountains, to see how the perfumes are made first hand, and of course to visit Saudi Arabia finally. But it was not meant to be as in 2019 the tourist visa only unrolled in the end of […]

Riyadh… Here We Go Again

Saudi Arabia never truly lets me go. In March 2022 I got offered to cover an event for a Maritime company at the World Defense Show and what an adventure it has turned out to be. First of all, I’ve got to tell you that it was the first edition of the World Defense Show, […]

Stormy Beginnings.

In Russia, we say that the way you will spend the New Year’s night will be the way that you spend your whole year so you should weigh your options wisely before deciding on your plans. The 1st of January 2021 I spent running from one dune to another in the Dubai desert, trying to […]

Would You still Turn Up if You Are Battling with Burnout?

Burnout is real. Whether you have so much work to do, that you can’t even think of lifting the camera to take some photos for yourself, or you don’t have any work which leaves you uninspired and feeling useless, in the end, there is rarely any balance in photographer’s life. Starting from times when the […]

11 Spectacular Moments of Fog in Dubai Through My Lens

Happy Thursday and another fog day in the Emirates of the Arab Union. There is indeed a feeling hard to describe when you wake up upon the cloud of fog, stretching as far as the eye could see, and if you are lucky enough to be living higher than the average dweller of our planet, […]

As Long As You Are Alive Anything Is Possible

Today was supposed to be the day when I was to make the 2021 a better year than 2020 by doing our first dosage of a Covid-19 vaccine, but the UAE government decided to postpone it prioritizing on the people with chronic disease and elderly citizens. I gladly would give up my turn to receive […]

5 Reasons Why Your Long-Exposure Photos Are Just Not Sharp Enough and 8 Solutions to Fix It

This is an article on how to master your long-exposure photography experience, and a few tricks that can help you make your images sharper.