a jumble of clouds

“It is Allah who sends the winds, and they stir the clouds and spread them in the sky however He wills, and He makes them fragments so you see the rain emerge from within them. And when He causes it to fall upon whom He wills of His servants, immediately they rejoice” Surah Ar-Rum, Ayat …

7/52-48 Thanksgiving!

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving! I am thankful for so much this year, I can barely begin to express it all. At the risk of incensing some readers, and with full knowledge that I’ll leave out innumerable blessings, here’s a short list: Allah azza wa jal, the clear guidance that He sent down to us through His …

7/52-43 let’s make this a test…

Ok. So I shot a bunch of randomness this week with the iPhone and the D7000+Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to identify which of the pictures came from the phone, and which came from the camera. I’ve made it a bit easier by including 3 Hipstamatic shots, so …

7/52-42 busyness continues

Oh so very busy this week. I intended to shoot the bulk of the 7/52 at the State Fair photowalk with one of the MeetUp groups I’ve been to busy to meet up with for months, but I worked from home for 12 hours instead. Thankfully, I played around with the Hueless app for 4 …

7/52-36 Eureka! Honeymoon!

I spent most of the last week in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, with my beloved wife (!?!?!?) Farhana Ali, on our honeymoon, enjoying our first week together. I can’t begin to express my wonder, gratitude, amazement, joy, excitement, and so much more at 1) being married; 2) being married to such a fabulous woman; and 3) …

James and Hana’s Big Day! (the outtakes)

Lest you think we are all professional models or something,* here are a few moments of goofiness and simple accidents from the Happy Couple(tm)’s Big Day: I’d like to thank Brian “The DJ” Cox, Tania “Mustang” Sultana, and unnamed waitstaff and passersby for taking some of these pictures. Everything was shot with the D7000 and …