Mubarak Village at night.

Mubarak Village nightscape

A long exposure nightscape of Mubarak Village beach near Karachi, Pakistan. This shot was taken at 2'o clock in the morning.The whole landscape was lit by moonlight and small bio-luminescent plankton in water which give off a blue/green light.

I had my camera on a tripod and had to use very slow shutter speeds and a small aperture for the correct exposure and maximum depth of field. The slow shutter speed has turned the waves into a blanket of fog engulfing the whole scene.

   The small bio-luminescent plankton give off light when disturbed. The ones in front of a wave are disturbed by wave motion and give of a brief spark of light. This phenomenon produces a brilliant color show and is very rare.

Al-Musawwir introduction.

Hi. My name is Taariq Haneef and I am an amateur photographer .I have started this blog as a tribute to the one and only true artist of this world, Allah Almighty. One of his 99 names is 'Al-Musawwir', meaning, 'The Artist'.

     Since i started photography, almost seven years ago, I have been overwhelmed by the nature and its beauty. Photography told me the difference between just looking at things and truly seeing them. The more I saw the more I believed. Quickly i realized that as a photographer i can not create anything. I can just copy the work of the one true artist, Al-Musawwir, and show it to the world by holding that moment still forever in my camera.

     I will be sharing my own images of the beautiful nature and of everything around us. I would like to pay my tribute to Al-Musawwir in this way. Hope you will like what you see.

     Please check back regularly as I will be adding more & more images.