Welcome to my blog. I'm currently working as a photographer in Egypt, mostly shooting weddings and engagements in Cairo. This is my way to share with you the different photographic opportunities I come across in my time here in Egypt. If you like you can see more of my work on my website at www.kaldasianarts.com and my facebook page at www.facebook.com/kaldasphotography
I hope you enjoy. Please let me know what you think.
Take care,
Timothy E Kaldas
Over the past few months we’ve been offering clients something a little different as an add-on to their wedding photography package; photobooths. Basically we set up a mini studio outside your wedding venue, bring a lot of props and have a photographer there all night taking some hilarious and memorable photos of you, your family and your friends. Here’s some examples of photobooths we’ve done in May.
A few days ago I got to shoot an engagement session of Ahmed and Dalia who will be getting married in a couple of weeks. Ahmed insisted that he wasn’t photogenic, but I think these shots prove otherwise. We had a lot of fun experimenting and getting lost at the Citadel. Ahmed and Dalia were great to work with and very easy going as we got lost about 5 million times that day. Towards the end of our visit the Citadel was invaded by literally hundreds of schoolchildren who kept saying to us a broken “aloooo” and staring at us as we worked in curiosity. This was my first shoot with my new 45mm Tilt Shift Lens. Look for the shots where the top and bottom of the picture are blurred to see the special results that come out of this fantastic piece of glass. After the Citadel we made our way to one of my favorite spots to shoot, Aquarium Park (Ganaynat al Asmak) in Zamalek. As always I love to hear your comments and what you think of the shoot. Thanks for visiting and, as always, please leave a comment to let me know what you think.
This was one of the most challenging weddings I’ve ever shot. That said, it was extremely fun and at times extremely confusing. This wedding had a traditional Egyptian Wedding Zaffa (Wedding Entrance), Western speeches, Arabic poetry, a Yemeni Zaffa and wedding guests who spoke more languages than a UN translator would be able to swing. At various points in the evening I was instructing guests in English, Arabic and occasionally my very broken French (I would like to once again apologize to all the French guests for my horrendous accent and butchery of their language). Ben’s poor little brother, in my confusion, found me giving him instructions in Spanish; a language no one at the wedding actually spoke, but I had lost track at that point really. This wedding celebrated the union of Ben from France and Atiaf from Yemen. They brought with them their friends and families from uh, just about everywhere. The wedding also took place just about everywhere. I started shooting the prep at Hotel Safir in Zamalek (across the street from my apartment, pretty convenient). Then we took a van with the bride and her siblings (you’ll see) to the Swiss Club in Giza and about 14 hours after I started I found myself standing on the October 6th bridge shooting the afterparty somewhere between Zamalek and Downtown Cairo.
Like the wedding itself, this is a very long post, but if it’s any consolation when I first went through the roughly 5000 pictures I took that day it was quite a bit longer 
I hope you enjoy the images as much as I enjoyed photographing the wedding. If possible I hope you’re nearly as confused as I found myself as well…
Now for just a quick costume change…
Just Kidding! It’s not over yet! Don’t you remember? I said AFTERPARTY on a bridge.
Ok, ok now you can leave a comment and move on with your lives Congrats Ben and Atiaf!
