honorable mention
Yaser Sulaiman syrian arab republicPhoto © Yaser Sulaiman
title
Paths of Enlightenment
The original capture is a 5-minute exposure of an office building in Dammam, Saudi Arabia captured in the morning using 16 stops of ND filters (10-stop and 6-stop stacked). The final result is a combination of 4 black-and-white versions of the original capture (3 for the building and one for the sky).
I am a Syrian expatriate of Circassian descent currently living and working in Saudi Arabia. At the end of 2014 and at around the age of 30, I picked up a new hobby: photography, and so far I haven't let go.
In the beginning, I explored portrait and landscape photography, but I always found myself generally gravitating toward the abstract and the minimal. That's why I'm currently focusing on black-and-white fine-art photography, and particularity the application of long-exposure and advanced B&W processing techniques to architectural and seascape photography.
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entry description
"Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment." - Dan BrownThe original capture is a 5-minute exposure of an office building in Dammam, Saudi Arabia captured in the morning using 16 stops of ND filters (10-stop and 6-stop stacked). The final result is a combination of 4 black-and-white versions of the original capture (3 for the building and one for the sky).
about the photographer
An international award-winning hobbyist fine art B&W photographer who often seeks the abstract and the minimal in architecture and seascapes using daytime long exposures.I am a Syrian expatriate of Circassian descent currently living and working in Saudi Arabia. At the end of 2014 and at around the age of 30, I picked up a new hobby: photography, and so far I haven't let go.
In the beginning, I explored portrait and landscape photography, but I always found myself generally gravitating toward the abstract and the minimal. That's why I'm currently focusing on black-and-white fine-art photography, and particularity the application of long-exposure and advanced B&W processing techniques to architectural and seascape photography.
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