About me

Hi, and welcome to my modest website. My name is Yasser Al-Mulqi, I started my "hereditary" hobby of photography since I born in August '68, I was really interested in the artistic shots that was taken by my father, and since that period I was dreaming to have professional photographer equipment.

I purchased my first camera in 1980, I don't remember the brand name but it was compatible black and white. I shoot 24 pictures, but only one of them was able to the development ...
The first professional filmed SLR set I had purchased was in 1984, it was the wonderful Zenit set. I still have the amazing lens "Jupiter-21M" till now! I return it back to the business recently when I got a converter to mount it on my Nikon DSLR, and here is one of this mergence's results >>>

In my beginning in the photography world I was fully affected by my father direction, which was the landscape. Although I didn't got the chance to visit the regions that he visited to feed my imagination, but I’m still aspire to do that because I love the beauty of our planet.
Before 1960 there was no color film development in our region, so my father was sending the films to France for development and printing.
Here is some of his shots I scanned from slides...

Paris 1959   London 1959   Beirut 1964

My equipment

During my photography life I shift several times between Nikon and Canon gear, but lastly I stuck with Nikon because of the advanced local dealer services, and the wide range of lenses and accessories availability compare to the Canon local dealer.

Nikon D700 FX

 - Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G
 - Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G
 - Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G
 - Nikon 60mm Micro f/2.8D
 - Nikon 50mm f/1.4D

Nikon SB-900 speed light
Cullmann 3430 tripod
Manfrotto 055MF3 tripod
Manfrotto 405 geared head
Lowepro 75AW, Lowepro 100AW bags

Nikon micro bellows system:
 - PB - 6 Bellows Focusing Attachment
 - PB - 6E Extension Bellows
 - PB - 6 Macro Copy Stand
 - PB - 6D Bellows Stand Spacer
 - 4Way Macro Focusing Slide rail
 - AR - 10 Double cable Release
 - 2 BR - 3 Bayonet Mount Adapter Ring
 - MC - 30 Remote Cord
 - MC - 25 2-Pin to 10-Pin Remote Adapter cord

Cokin X-PRO Series filtering system:
 - ND 8 Gradual X 121
 - ND 8 Gradual X 121F
 - ND 4 Gradual X 121M
Plus collection of Tiffen and Hoya filters...

That was a quick brief to explain how I involved in this wonderful hobby.

I’m shooting now almost all types of photography with some difference in the level, but I’m more interested in macro, sports and panoramic photography.