Multimedia: The Camel Market of Cairo



Over this past two weeks of reconnoitering for an Oct 2011, Cairo/Nile photo workshop I was able to see and visit some amazing places. Places, that if I didn’t have the job that I have, I might say were once in a lifetime kind of places. Last Friday was once such place. My ever gracious host, Marco Ryan kept telling me that the Cairo Camel Market or the Birqash Souq al-gamel, as it is known in Arabic, is a great opportunity for the the workshop to visit and shoot. I had some reservations. I figured it would be crowded and confusing and wasn’t sure it would be worth getting up at 4:30am to photograph. Boy, was I ever mistaken. It was amazing. The sounds and textures were fabulous. I hope that this 4 min slide show will give you a taste of what it was like.

A special thanks goes out to Fathy Salama & Sharkiat, as well as Face Music for allowing me to use the track, Camel Road as background music, it really helped make the show. If you are interested in purchasing the album Camel Road you can find it HERE.

By the way, spaces on the workshop are limited and even without solid dates spaces are selling. If you are interested in having a space saved for you please contact Marco Ryan HERE.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 at 3:36 pm and is filed under Blog, Multimedia, Travel and tagged with , , , , , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

  • http://twitter.com/marcoryan marcoryan

    Just wonderful. I've been to the market 4 times now and you discovered images that I hadn't seen? Using Fathy Slalama's music is just wonderful. What a great slideshow.

  • Matt Connors

    Nicely put together Matt. The hectic nature and personality of the market are evident in the show.

  • http://www.cyberward.net/blog Chris Ward

    The images are great as usual, but the music selection and then the overlay of the voices was what made this slideshow. The audio really helps to place me in the market.

  • Rongeur

    That was excellent, I enjoyed it a great deal. Would you be willing to share what program you like to use to make your slideshows? Thanks again for sharing these images.

  • http://thedigitaltrekker.com Matt Brandon

    Rongeur, You must be new to these parts, welcome. I say that, as not very long ago I did a rather complete review of the software I use, Soundslide Plus, you will find it HERE. You can also view other multimedia shows HERE. Thanks for visiting.

  • http://www.mateamichelangeli.com/ Matea Michelangeli

    awww Great presentation. Love the background voices combined with the music! Needless to say the photos are spectacular. What did you use to record the voices?

    Can't believe your spaces for the workshop are selling without dates! Already going to Kashmir/Ladakh, so I'll buy some lottery tickets for Egypt.

  • http://www.craigfergusonimages.com cfimages

    Excellent work. I really felt a sense of being there, as well as it causing memories of my time at the Pushkar Mela to surface.

  • http://thedigitaltrekker.com Matt Brandon

    Matea, Thanks for your comment. I used a Sony PCMD50 with a homemade “dead cat” wind screen on it. I love it. I only wish it recorded in MP3, it only records in WAV. But that isn't much of a problem, as I import the audio into Audacity and it reads WAV file without any issue.

  • Denise Dynes

    Fantastic. A great way to have my coffee this morning. :)

  • http://cathytopping.wordpress.com/ Cathy

    Inspirational as always!

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