Travel and Photography | Sunrise in Sarangkot | Pokhara Nepal

© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise in Sarangkot | Pokhara Nepal

“The most important lessons in life can never be expressed in black and white, but must be experienced. I thought I knew it all back in university, and that everything of importance can be found in books. But the truth is that the most important things in life are very hard to put in black and white, including what I’ve said in this post.

When most of the world’s information is at our fingertips, a mouseclick away, it makes it feel like we don’t need to experience any more. Movies, books, or “living vicariously through someone else” means we can apparently get the general gist of anything.

This is false. Experience is the greatest teacher of all. Stop reading about or watching the world passively and start living it.”

– Benny Lewis –

Back in my younger days, I like reading about adventure books, I like reading travel magazine like National Geographic, I like watching travel documentary on television especially from National Geographic, I like to keep travel article that can be found in a newspaper in my file, I mean I file those travel article, and when looking back at it, there is so much article about Nepal, I like to keep newspaper clipping about travel. But now I rarely did that.

One of the reason maybe because of the internet, in those days, I don’t have access to the internet, let alone owning a computer, I don’t have one. So the only source of information that I can get is through magazines and newspaper. Among the first photography magazine that I bought is Outdoor Photographer Magazine way back in 1993, my 1st photography magazine.

Among my photographers idol back then is, Art Wolfe, Galen Rowell, Jim Brandenburg, Tim Fitzharris, just to name a few, I think some of you can hardly recognise most of them, unless you are starting photography around my age, which is more than twenty years ago. Some of the photographers mentions are still alive, but Galen Rowell and his wife which is also a photographer were killed in the crash of a private airplane in California, August 11 2002.

“My interest in photography did not begin with a burning desire to see the world through a camera, It evolved through an intense devotion to wilderness that eventually shaped all parts of my life and brought them together.”

– Galen Rowell –

Most of the photographer mention here love being outdoors, in the wild, love mountains, traveling, adventure. They are not only great photographers but also great writers. As much as I love looking at their pictures, I also enjoy reading about their story on getting the shot.

Back then I don’t have the money to travel to a far away places. I can only dreaming about it, hopefully someday, I will visit one of the few places that they have been to. Those who have interest in photography nowadays are very lucky, the world seem very small, every corner of the earth are within reach. A lot of low cost Airlines can take you far and away.

Anyway, there is no point for me to write a long story, since this information is less valuable, STOP now, go and do some research about your favourite destination, get to know when is the best time to visit, do some kind of research about potential location for your photographic endeavour.

Get to know about transportation on how to get there, make a hotel/hostel  reservation, get to know if there is any festival or events that you wanted to cover there. Frequent travelers know how to look for a cheap airfare, normally it was during off-season, or just take a transit flight, because normally a direct flight will cost more.

Some people might think that most backpackers or travellers are millionaire or someone with a handsome bank account, but the truth is, most of them are like you and me, they have a great desire to see the world and they will always find the way. They will never give up easily because there is no point giving up, we all have one life to live, there is no second chance, this is our only chance.