Experimenting with a new set up. I do remember I was stopped down most, or all of the way. f/16 or maybe 22. I had a B+W IR Cut filter stacked with a Graduated ND. The sky was dark thus I rolled the ND filter so as to allow the skylight to pass and cut back on the reflective light bouncing off of the landscape. I later cringed when I realized that I was set to record only JPGs and not the RAW files. This photo is straight out of the camera and I now breathe a sigh of relief.

Taken at the Global Village in Dubai. It's a mixture of artificial and culture in a multicultural atmosphere with light everywhere. A fun place to shoot.

I guess I should have mowed the lawn and trimmed the one bush directly behind the girl. Personally I never much liked the stripes painted on the support pole for the pool slide, or the swing-set for that matter; but I was over-ruled. Makes for busy photos. But be it so humble (tongue in cheek), there's no place like ...