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Our very own Indiana Jones experience
This week, at Taraji Blue, we focus on the incredible country of Jordan. We will share our favourite photos and experiences here on the Taraji Blue blog. I wanted to kick start with this iconic image of Petra as glimpsed through the Siq.
This was our first glimpse of the marvellous Treasury which was immortalised in the Indiana Jones movie. I had practically raced through the Siq, desperate to see it in the light of dawn. It’s immense and incredibly beautiful. As the sun rises it gradually bathes the Treasury in a soft amber light which accentuates the pink of the stone and casts shadows which dance across the walls. If you get there at the crack of dawn you can enjoy the whole thing practically to yourself. Just make sure you return at sunset for the repeat performance.
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Taraji Blue photo galleries – relaunched!
After investing in new photo processing software we’ve been busy re-doing many of our photo galleries and have been gradually re-releasing them over the course of the last few months. Every launch is shared in the Taraji Blue photo gallery and showcased on our Taraji Blue facebook page, so be sure to like us to receive the latest updates.
Recent re-releases include;
- The Taraji Blue Jordan photo gallery
- The Taraji Blue Costa Rica collection
- The Taraji Blue USA photo galleries, including Boston, Chicago, Florida and USA West.
As ever, we welcome your feedback and comments on our photography.
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Satisfying the bucket list
We’ve had a great start to 2013 – we’ve managed to see and photograph many a species in the UK including Grey Herons, Great Crested Grebes, cute Goslings, Buzzards, Ospreys, Oystercatchers and Gannets.
We’ve also been lucky enough to locate and photograph a subject I’d never seen before in the wild – the UK Red Squirrel. I had longed to see these magnificent creatures for so long, and we struck lucky on a weekend in the UK Lake District. We were supposed to be photographing and observing the mighty Ospreys, but the cheeky Red Squirrels darting around our feet were far too distracting and our attention turned to photographing them. I must admit – the environment was less than perfect – they had been baited by some nuts, and the afternoon sun (a rare sight in the UK) was very bright indeed, making it very difficult to capture the perfect shot. But we persevered and, whilst these are not my best shots, they are all I have to prove I saw and spent time with these fantastic creatures – and for that reason, I am sharing them on this blog today. We’d still be there now if it wasn’t for our car parking ticket running out!
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Something old…
Here’s a shot from the Taraji Blue archives.
We’ve been spending a lot of time recently reviewing our photography portfolio and have enjoyed rooting out shots that we did not feel made the grade previously – but that we now like. It’s amazing how much our photographic eye, style and preferences have changed with time. Take, for example, this image - previously shunned in favour of close ups of wildlife photography, I now love it for its vastness, the way it captures not only the immense landscape of the Maasai Mara, but also how it captures the volume of animals that freely roam its plains. Everywhere you look – every black dot – is a wildbeest or zebra participating in one of the world’s greatest spectacles. This photo captures this in a way that action shots / close ups couldn’t.
We’re now finding that we are keen to capture the incredible landscapes we see and we aim to extend our photography kit to help us improve the art of landscape photography.
In addition to sharing photos here (on the blog) and in our Taraji Blue photo galleries, we also share new and never seen before photos on our Taraji Blue facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/tarajiblue . Please do check us out and, in you like what you see, please like us.
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Vacant Stall
I find that late Sunday afternoon’s in spring are a great time to explore York city centre. With the markets closed, the tourists at home and the sun peaking out, the city takes on a rare silence and allows me, as a local, to have some peace and quiet to explore the back alleyways, historic properties and marketplaces of the city.
This image is a vacant market stall on York Market – taken early evening once the stallholders had packed up and gone home. It’s silence and absence of items tells a tale. The marks on the tables are evidence of traders,exchanges and items for sale. Of bustle, chaos and eventual calm.
This image is shared in support of our “Yorkshire” week here on Taraji Blue where we put aside our wanderlust for a week and instead focus on the beauty and experiences we can find in our own backyard.
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