The last 4 years of my life were marked by a never ending flow of new experiences feelings and emotions. It is when with a bit of effort and a bit of luck I had the chance to change my life 180 degrees.

Being from Mexico and being presented with the idea of moving to the middle east certainly made me raise my eyebrows and start thinking if it would really be a good idea. It was definitely not a popular destination for Mexicans, and Qatar was just starting to get more famous because of the world cup 2022. Few months later I was landing in Doha, ready to eat some shawarmas and get to know the place.

Now.. what does this have to do with this blog? well, good question. Like I said, being in Doha created many opportunities for me on many levels but a couple that I cherish a lot are the chance to travel and explore to so many different places and be able to photograph them.

Also, being an expat in Qatar helped me a lot to improve my photography, it pushed me to go out and take more pictures because is so much to capture over there. It is a fast evolving country that also wants to keep its core traditions intact which seems difficult, but it means that you can find plenty of different things and often contradictory situations.

A Mix of old and new is easy to find and while Qatar may not be what you have in mind as an Arab Country (lets say... Morocco?) it is definitely interesting to see the direction the country and the city are taking. An amazing skyline, the old downtown, 5 stars hotels, old style Dhow boats, super cars and camel races,

My experience in Qatar is over and now after a brief pause living in the real world (more details on that later) I ended up moving back to the Middle East, this time to Abu Dhabi. This is why I decided to start this blog, new life, new city, new job: A new start!

I started taking photographs as a hobby and soon became my passion. While I try to share them (prints and online) I always felt that I could share a bit more, the story behind the pictures of some tips I got along the way. For whatever reason (laziness maybe?) I never done that in the past. I have tons of pictures just getting piled up ready to be out there so expect many posts in retrospective, probably good to help me remember good times and also I'm already planning next year adventures so I can keep piling up pics :), lets see where this experiment takes us.

For now, thank you for stopping by, I promise to start adding good stuff soon!

Raziel - The Expatcker -