This is my first post without a photo and indeed my last on BuYousef.net. I’ve been putting it off for sometime now, but this Eid holiday allowed me to give it some attention. Photography is ...
Building projects of all sizes are exciting. I love how the many small details fit into fewer larger ideas to come together in creating a solution, whether it’s a dwelling, a road, a bridge, or even...
I spent almost three hours photographing Kuwait City from Al Hamra Tower yesterday. This magnificent building took me to the highest point in Kuwait on the 74th floor – which I’m told is ...
It’s that time of year when we take back our garden and own the outside space of our home. We maintain our small garden to give us pleasure all year from the window looking out, but during au...
It’s not a major revelation to say that I travel… a lot. Over the past ten years I have flown over a million kilometers, which is equivalent to flying twenty-five times around the globe, or to...
These are single-utility-devices. The only ‘app’ is talk, which allows you to speak to another human from a long distance. You can do this without having to resort to the obsolete techn...
Over the course of ten days, these green-haired gremlins managed what many of my friends would dream of achieving in ten years. I’m not one to talk myself; heading as I am to Baldsville, at bu...
One of my favourite apps for the iPad is Flipboard. It puts all your feeds into a nice magazine-look making many of the images and links visible. The app is still young and full of potential. I use ...
The world is a funny place. When I took these photos, I didn’t imagine that tomatoes would be the hot news topic in Kuwait! During our stay in London, my wife’s best friend visited us a...
Three places outside Kuwait City have been secretly calling me for some time. The Mutla’ ridge in the west, which I am still to visit, the station of Umm il Aish, which was unfortunately remov...
Filed under: Away, Favourite Tagged: buckingham palace, bus, centre point, d300, double yellow line, eros, graffeeti, guard, leicester square, london, mind the gap, nikkor 35mm f/1.8, nikon, photogra...
عيدكم مبارك و تقبل الله طاعتكم I wish you and your loved ones a Happy Eid. May Allah’s blessings follow you always. Filed under: Away Tagged: d300, eid, flower, macro, nikkor 105mm f/2.8 vr, n...
Smiles start with the young and extend to all generations in this city. It’s when I witness moments like these that I wish my children join me on business trips. They would have loved it. Hu...
Some of my readers were expecting photos of the Lake District (Cumbria) by now, but my holiday was deferred a week and I ended up in London instead. The reason was an unplanned business trip for an ...
One of the best ways to see a large city is on a bicycle. For someone with my level of fitness, this means taking a bike onto a train then spending the day exploring, remembering of course to take r...
Wishing you and your loved ones a blessed holy month and easy fasting. مبارك عليكم الشهر و عساكم من عواده Filed under: Away Tagged: holy month, kuwait, ramadan, ramadhan
This post was originally planned for the 2nd of August but – since I hadn’t yet taken the photos and I was out of the country – I had to be home before I could write it. Around thi...
Zorro is a silver java finch who was born in Kuwait January this year. You may remember my post about the zebra finches. Well, this little boy also comes from my brother-in-law. He kindly looked af...
I bought a smaller camera for those work trips when I head straight from the airport to a meeting. I don’t like the ‘tourist’ look that a big camera would convey. I’m also v...
This has to be one of the most fun activities for a family: on horseback through the woods. The weather was beautiful and so was the place. The people (and animals) at the Riding Centre were very w...
Lines are not always clearly defined between work and life. I’m a great believer in mixing the two to a certain degree – but not all the time. Photography allows me to do this when I...
Over the past three years, I’ve visited Sens about eight times. Most of my trips were in winter, which meant it was dark when I left the office in the evening. Other towns have had a better sh...
It’s more flying and less visiting, at least for this week. I’m tired of Dubai Airport. This is not in any way a criticism, far from it in fact. I’m just bored of it. For this tr...
Two men, two meals, and two pastas – hence the silly title. A few days ago, while shopping for football snacks with one of my brothers, we came across some fantastic king prawns. We were sick...
This has been sitting in my notebook for almost a year. Soon after my short experiment with lightwriting, I watched an episode of Scott Wittenburg’s photography podcast and the subject was &#...
I took this photo last year when we spent the day at an animal park just outside London. I posted this, and a few other images, on the National Geographic website soon after. Earlier this week, I r...
I know it’s summer when I look around and see an empty house around me. It feels strange to have the whole house to myself. The garden is not used – even on nice afternoons, there is no...
Most of the conversations with friends and family this time of the year revolve around travel. My wife’s last day at work today signals the start of the family’s summer holiday, which is...
On my photography website, BuYousef.com, I don’t write anything to accompany the images. I choose my favourites from here and post them into themed galleries. Until recently I converted all im...
Yousef was at a football-themed birthday party today. His school’s last-day-party also has a football theme. Football fever is everywhere I look. Tonight is England’s first game. I...
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