Here’s one of my new favorite tricks inside mosques or cathedrals or museums or anything with a cool ceiling. It’s a bit of a ropey trick and it only works half the time. You’ll have to make sure it’s not too crowded… Anyway, set the camera flat on the ground with a wide-angle lens. Set up for a 2-second timer, click it, then run away! You gotta get pretty far to get outside the frame… It’s hard to line up too, so sometimes I’m a few degrees off the orthogonal, so you’ll have to rotate later on in post-processing.

Egyptian Islamic Chandelier

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• Date Taken2017-02-03 16:39:31
• CameraILCE-7RM2
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/4
• Aperture5
• ISO160
• Focal Length12.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-0.7

Here’s another one of the images from my 1000 Stories from 1000 Places NFT drop. It sold out in minutes, but they are now available to trade on OpenSea and X2Y2, etc so be sure to check them out.

I took this on our family trip to Egypt. We spent the day exploring the pyramids along with an amazing guide. It was the first time riding camels for some members of the family and they were in for quite a ride! There’s nothing like your first time riding a camel, and especially the initial launch off the ground. It’s a very scary experience, even for the bravest people in the world!

Cairo, Egypt

Camels in Africa

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• Date Taken2017-02-02 16:29:32
• CameraILCE-7RM2
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/800
• Aperture8
• ISO125
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-1

I took this on our family trip to Egypt. We spent the day exploring the pyramids along with an amazing guide the Ritz-Carlton got us there. It was the first-time riding camels for some members of the family, and they were in for quite an experience! There’s nothing like your first time riding a camel, and especially the initial launch off the ground. It’s a very scary moment, even for the bravest people in the world!

Camels In Africa

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• Date Taken2017-02-02 16:29:32
• CameraILCE-7RM2
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/800
• Aperture8
• ISO125
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-1

But it could be…

Not Egypt

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• Date Taken2012-08-29 16:14:50
• CameraTG-1
• Camera MakeOlympus
• Exposure Time1/500
• Aperture8
• ISO100
• Focal Length4.5 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramCreative (Slow speed)
• Exposure Bias

When I was in Egypt with the family, and not getting into trouble for flying the quadcopter, we got a great tour around the Sphinx by one of their top experts. The challenge was then to do something a bit different from the average photo of such a well know creation…

Great Sphinx of Giza

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• Date Taken2017-02-02 14:49:18
• CameraILCE-7RM2
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/1000
• Aperture8
• ISO125
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-1

A few years ago I took the family on an around-the-world trip to study world religions. One of the three Muslim countries we visited was here in Egypt. The others were Oman and Qatar. Anyway, we visited a lot of mosques, and it was really cool for the kids to hear the call to prayer and see many of the traditions.

Peace in the Mosque

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• Date Taken2017-02-03 16:35:33
• CameraILCE-7RM2
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time0.5
• Aperture5
• ISO125
• Focal Length11.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-0.7

I took this on our family trip to Egypt. We spent the day exploring the pyramids along with an amazing guide the Ritz-Carlton got us there. It was the first time riding camels for some members of the family and they were in for quite a ride! There’s nothing like your first time riding a camel, and especially the initial launch off the ground. It’s a very scary experience, even for the bravest people in the world!

Camels in Africa

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• Date Taken2017-02-02 16:29:32
• CameraILCE-7RM2
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/800
• Aperture8
• ISO125
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-1

While in Egypt, we were lucky enough to get up close and personal with the mighty Sphinx himself! It was pretty crazy standing there… right in front of one of the most iconic places on Earth. It wasn’t quite as big as I expected, but it was still very impressive. I even managed to do a Facebook Live from this location while an Egyptologist showed us around… and even showed us a secret tunnel underneath.

The Sphinx Across Time

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• Date Taken2017-02-02 14:49:18
• CameraILCE-7RM2
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/1000
• Aperture8
• ISO125
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-1

What a beautiful mosque, eh? I didn’t visit the middle east much until the last five years ago, but I really enjoy shooting inside mosques. The variety between them is amazing. It does often require getting special permission, but that is not so difficult to get. Everyone inside the mosques has been quite nice as well. In this one, I was with my wife and two daughters the whole time as well.

Mosque in Cairo

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• Date Taken2017-02-03 16:16:51
• CameraILCE-7RM2
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time2.5
• Aperture5
• ISO125
• Focal Length13.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-0.7