Travel

Ancestral Ways

August 3, 2011 by Younes

When you visit Fes, Morocco’s first and oldest capital, one of the must see areas is the tanners (debbarhine) district. These venerable institutions have been smoothing and dying leather -one of the cities famous specialties- in the same way since the 11th or 12th century. The fellas change, nothing else does (ok, the hose isn’t quite that old, but you get my drift).

An apprentice watches as leather is being dyed

Here is I used the repeating patterns of the dying vats to provide a point of interest and anchor my composition. The gentleman in the red shirt was just icing on the cake. In post processing I pushed tonal contrast a little bit to really bring out the gritty feel of the place.

MOROCCO PHOTOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE

July 27, 2011 by Younes
Today I am very pleased to announce that after almost two years of careful planning and preparation, that I will be offering a brand new photographic adventure to the land where I was born: Morocco.

This is not a fast-paced tour that puts quantity ahead of quality. I deliberately chose to reduce the number of places we visit to take our time, to give you ample opportunity to show you the best Morocco has to offer. The adventure will take place this coming fall and starts October 29th and ends on November 5th, 2011 (8 days, Saturday to Saturday).

For more information, please head to the workshop and photographic adventure page here.

Morocco Gallery is up

June 14, 2011 by Younes
I know I’ve been teasing you with for quite some time, but it is here now. My Morocco Gallery is now live on the site and can be viewed here.

Walking down the narrow streets of the Old Medina of Fes, the old imperial capital of Morocco

For the more adventurous of you, a larger library of Morocco images is available on my stock library, which you can see here.

I hope you enjoy watching as much as I did making them!

Morocco Contact Sheet

June 8, 2011 by Younes
I am not quite done processing my Morocco shots, but I figured, I’d give you some fodder for discussion in the meantime with a little contact sheet of some of the standouts.

See you next week.

Watcha looking at?

June 7, 2011 by Younes

I have just come back from a very productive two-week stint in Morocco with friend and distinguished photographer David Clapp scouting for potential photographic tour this coming fall. The return home is a bit of a hectic one between work, teaching and social commitments. I am well advanced in the processing of the Morocco images and will be updating my portfolio galleries very soon. In the meantime, I will leave you with a quick postcard from the country of the setting sun.

This image was taken in the old Medina of Fes, the largest living medieval city in the world, where very little has changed in the last 1000 or so years, as this man was looking over the bridge that linked the two parts of the city. If want to see more from this magical city, tune in next week as I will surely have some new images ready to post by then.

An old man looking out the bridge overlooking the Oued Fes in the Old Medina of Fes, Morocco

On a completely unrelated note, I am excited to report that one of my waterfall shot from the Gatineau Park is featured on the cover of Photosolution this month.

Photosolution Cover July 2011

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