Photography

2025

Thoughts on the Leica M EV1

As a Leica M11 owner with three lenses (21 SEM, 35 LUX, and 50 LUX), here are some of my opinions regarding the newly released Leica M EV1.

25 Oct, 25

2025

A Week in Billund: LEGO House, LEGOLAND, and Lalandia

We spent a week in Billund, Denmark. The home of LEGO. LEGO fans know that Billund has a special place.

30 Aug, 25

2025

Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera ?

When Fujifilm announced the Fujifilm X half, the internet was literally divided into two halves. Some people were disappointed that

14 Jun, 25

2025

The Barbican

Three years ago, while searching for Vitsoe setups, I stumbled upon Barbican. I delved deeper and discovered a building complex

12 May, 25

2024

A month in Munich

We stayed with the family (two kids and my wife) for several weeks in Munich. I took hundreds of photos. Here is how it went.

31 Aug, 24

2024

A morning in Nymphenburg Palace Park

The Nymphenburg Palace Park ranks among Germany's finest and most important garden design examples. It's also my favorite one in Munich.

22 May, 24

2024

Faculty of Architecture, METU Ankara

The Faculty of Architecture of the METU (one of Turkey's elite universities) was always something that piqued my interest. It was built in 1960's, during the Brutalism era. It's one of the most sophisticated and well-known brutalist buildings in Turkey, especially in Ankara.

13 Apr, 24

2023

Ulus, the old town of Ankara

Last year, I had an off day (November 2022). I picked up my Fuji X100V and walked with my wife through the old town of Ankara, Ulus. These are the photos from that day.

19 Nov, 23

2023

How I backup my Photos

This will be a short topic, but I wanted to get it out of my mind. I have 62K photos

25 Feb, 23

2023

From Fujifilm to Leica: My Experience with the M11

My journey from using Fujifilm cameras for a decade to using Leica's latest digital Rangefinder, the M11.

06 Jan, 23

2022

Coffee in Seoul

My wife and I recently traveled to South Korea and stayed in Seoul for a week. Seoul is heaven for

07 Nov, 22

2022

Coffee in Tokyo

(This is a copy of my post at arslan.exposore.co, which I wrote in 2014. I started my blog

20 Aug, 22

2018

Tips & tricks to batch edit EXIF metadata of photos

EXIF metadata contains useful information about the photo. What if your photos don't contain a correct EXIF metadata? Let me show how to batch fix and manipulate photos easily on Terminal

18 Apr, 18

2017

Blue Bottle in Japan

I knew Blue Bottle was interested in investing in Japan for a while. Their CEO James Freeman was inspired by a small Kissaten (old Japanese Coffee shop) when he opened his first Blue Bottle Coffee shop. How are these coffee shops designed?

23 Nov, 17