Adventure
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Travel and Photography | A Glimpse of Bhaktapur
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | An Old Man Sitting On a Roadside in Bhaktapur It is not difficult to spot an old man sitting on a roadside in Bhaktapur, plenty of them, there is a lot of temples and porches in Bhaktapur and there are the favourite place for this men to have a great time with their friends. Sometimes it is too perfect, it’s like you are inside a movie set up. Sometimes, there are a group of them, wearing a beautiful Nepali Topi or “Dhaka Topi”, actually The hat is made of a fabric called “Dhaka”. Sometimes when a group of them sitting on a porches, it looks so…
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Travel and Photography | Low Light Photography in Kathmandu
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Devotees Light a Candles in Boudhanath Stupa | Kathmandu “Not a day goes by without a few hours of power cuts. Load shedding has now become a perennial problem and it is here to stay.” – Prasiddha Upadhaya, Hydropower Developer – Despite Nepal’s huge hydropower potential and more than half a century of experience starting with the Pharping hydro plant in 1911, to date, less than 1% of Nepal’s hydro-power resources have been tapped. Furthermore, no significant effort has been exerted in tapping other energy sources. Crippled with power shortage, Himalayan country Nepal imposes extra hour of mandatory power cut. The situation is going to further…
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Travel and Photography | Life is a Journey, Not a Destination
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise at Sarangkot | Pokhara | Nepal | Annapurna Range “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” – LIFE Magazine Motto – Traveling means different things to different people, yes, when talking about traveling, we always have a destination to go. We cannot just step out of our home and just go out aimlessly. We cannot buy a flight ticket to nowhere but we must buy a flight tickets to some destination, a specific destination. a country, a city. But the real joy of…
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Travel Photography | Nepal | Can I Take Your Photograph, Please?
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Nepal I simply could not resist photographing them, the light was so wonderful. I’m sure, I will be haunted by this moment if I didn’t get the shot, well, at least I should try to ask them. Photographing strangers, isn’t easy, nobody ever said it was. Actually I just about to leave this place, heading back to our van for the next destination when I struck at this place. Actually at first I was drawn by the lighting, then I saw a great moment. I brace myself asking them, whether I can take their photograph, not a single words uttered by…
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Travel Photography | Bhaktapur at Night | Why You Don’t Need Flash Here?
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Night Activity at Bhaktapur | Bhairabnath Temple | Taumadhi Tole Square Bhaktapur | Nepal | 50 mm | ISO 2500 The photograph above were taken at Bhaktapur, just after the sunset. They were chanting and playing some kind of a traditional musical instrument. The light were so dim, it was very dark, the only source of light there coming from the candles. Anyway my point here is that, sometimes, especially those who are new in photography tend to pop up their build in flash or quickly attach a flash to the camera hot shoe and take the shot. The result that you get when using a flash…
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