SHOOTING IN NEW ORLEANS This was my first ever trip to New Orleans and I reacted just like any other first time traveler to this city of jazz, mesmerised by the sights, sound and color of the city from day one plus the clear blue sky and congestion-free freeways as the KL condition was hazy and the usual traffic jams on almost every road available. In fact, it was not easy to try and capture a heavily congested road in New Orleans itself since very few cars used the roads all the time even though traffic was heavy (but fast moving) at the freeways outside the city. How I want to remember my New Orleans trip by was to ensure that the scenes I have shot would not be the same as those that could be seen from postcards and travel magazines but my own angles. Not many cars in this shot Or in here either     Items on display at one of the shops Mardi Gras are synonymous with New Orleans There is no fixed date or month when the annual Mardi Gras festival is held in New Orleans as it varies every year. One year, it can be held in February and in the next, it will be in either March or April. But in my first trip there, I was a week week, so getting some shots of the Mardi Gras attires and materials from one of those shops that specialized in them was one of the priorities. SHOOTING IN LAS VEGAS For the people of Las Vegas, I will say they may not think any of these pictures shown here to be anything amazing since they are used to the sights and colors of the famed casino city in their daily lives. Only tourists and first-time visitors would be amazed at the sights and splendors of the gambling city but as a professional photographer, I tried not to include the usual casino-type of images in my pictures of the city but to focus more on the interesting aspects like these examples below. This cabaret-type show was from the Canon booth at PMA 2000 One of the displays outside the Riviera Hotel Casino     The sights outside the Circus Circus Hotel Some displays outside the Forum Shop entrance Actually, the sights inside The Forum Shop, which is part of the famous Caesar's Palace, are much more dazzling than the usual night-time neon light displays that most people are more accustomed to whenever Las Vegas is mentioned or portrayed in the movies and on televisions. You will need a fast lens and at least an ISO 400 film in order to capture the amazing displays inside the Forum. << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 .