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Some photographs

Al Ain afternoon A child busy with her chocolate Inside Dubai mall Dubai mall top Cubicles of life - and escapes Cubicles of life IBN Battutta mall, Dubai Jambughoda forest Jambughoda forest Jambughoda forest Jambughoda forest Jambughoda forest Jambughoda forest Sharjah Corniche

Gift of time

Sometimes I get sad, for reasons, for myself too at times. I booked a lens through ebay from a seller living somewhere in Latvia. He took 7 days to send that lens post receiving my money. After all who cares once you get money. I had to leave Abudhabi as I was heading my home country. The lens arrived a week late from the day I left Abudhabi. I took help from my friends and almost 70 days post my payment, I got the lens through five countries and 7 friends. I was sad these last two months for the lens actually. I took 2 months to gather up money to buy one 80mm or such focal length lens to shoot my daughter and my wife to get results from the wonderful sensor of NEX. The lens is an 85mm f2 Jupiter lens. Silver finish 40 years old lens. I tried it with my NEX 3 with an M39 Leica mount adapter...hmmm it didn't focus. WHY? Because the lens is an M39 one but it actually is for an SLR, not for Rangefinder cameras. AAAAGH!!! I do not know why but while ordering that M39 Leica