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  • Adventure,  Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Life,  Moment,  Photoshop

    Sea Gypsies | Life in Black and White

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Sea Gypsies | Life in Black and White | Maiga Island Semporna Sabah “Life is like a good black and white photograph, there’s black, there’s white, and lots of shades in between.”  – Karl Heiner – About this picture, actually I did both editing with this photograph, I mean I did edit this photograph in colors first but then I did not satisfied with the outcome and then I try to desaturate  a bit the colors which you can find the photograph in my flickr site and then I did a black and white version like what you looking at here. I like both but…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Life,  Moment,  People,  Portrait,  Travel

    Sea Gypsies | Life By The Seas | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Sea Gypsies | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus – These sea gypsies kids seems to be so happy playing around when I met them here in the island o Maiga, not very far away from Semporna Sabah. They are a little bit shy actually, I did try to get closer to them but the close I try to get to them, they try to move further and further away but still, I manage to get…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Malaysia,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Bohey Dulang Island | Tun Sakaran Marine Park | Borneo

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Bohey Dulang Island | Tun Sakaran Marine Park © Azman Jumat | Photograph of me taking picture at Bohey Dulang taken by Azman Jumat © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Tun Sakaran Marine Park | Bohey Dulang Island | Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo Tun Sakaran Marine Park (TSMP) are situated at the entrance to Darvel Bay, off the East coast of Sabah near the town of Semporna, it took about 45 minutes by speed boat from the jetty of this small town. Named after then the Head of State of Sabah, Tun Sakaran Dandai, it was gazetted in July 2004 as Sabah’s seventh park. The…

  • Art,  Life,  Malaysia,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Once Upon a Time in Semporna Sabah | Life By The Sea

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Semporna | Life By The Sea Depending to whom you ask for, Semporna is a gateway to paradise, gateway to beautiful island of Sabah especially to Sipadan Island which is considered among the top dive site in the world, but there is more in Semporna than Sipadan Island, there is Mataking, Kapalai and Mabul, just to name a few that are famous with divers. Since this is a photography blog, most photographers that I’ve known come to Semporna for a different reason, unless they are underwater photographers. Most of the photographers that I’ve known like to come here to visit the life of Sea Gypsies…

  • Art,  Expression,  Family,  Portrait

    Family Photography | Father and Son

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Father and Son | Photograph Taken by My Wife “My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” – Jim Fox – I don’t think I can carry my son like this if he reach twenty years old if God Willing “InsyaAllah”, so I better get the picture first before its too late. My wife took this picture and I’m not someone who can easily get satisfied when someone else took a picture of me, not even my wife, so after each shot taken, I will take a look at the LCD just…