Travel
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Traveling Family | Snapshots at Cameron Highlands
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Family Photographs at Brinchang Cameron Highlands Brinchang is the highest town in Cameron Highlands, situated 1450 meters high on a gently sloping plateau along the main road, about 4km after Tanah Rata or 3km before Kea Farm. While relatively small compared to Tanah Rata, Brinchang attracts the most visitors, drawn by the town’s dominant Chinese ethnicity and flavour. The inclining terrain and lack of flat land areas have resulted in commercial activity and urban development being concentrated at a small pocket of town. This epicentre of Brinchang is where numerous restaurants, shops and hotels huddle among densely packed shop lots, jostling fiercely for tourist customers.…
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Photography Tips | Minimalist Photography | Keep It Simple
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter at Habu Boh tea Plantation | Cameron Highlands Sometimes the best things in life is to keep it simple, I think so does goes to photography. There is a place for minimalism and there is a place for a little bit of context in photography. Sometimes the simple photograph does not tell the whole story since we have already crop out any unwanted attention in the photograph and when it is simple, the visual story become simple also. This photograph may look simple, just a mother which is my wife and our newborn daughter against a green tea plantation at Cameron Highlands.…
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Once Upon a Time in Kashmir | It’s The Journey That’s Matter
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Floating Vegetable Market | Dal Lake | Kashmir The Journey “Journey are gifts we give ourselves. Even if you are lucky, and have someone else footing the bill for your journey, you are still giving yourself a gift just by going. Too many people have opportunities to travel, but choose to stay home, fearful of the unknown, shackled by their everyday rut, tied down to commitments that don’t have to tie them down if they would seek creative solutions. We can always travel right away, but we can always be planning, scheming, chiseling away at the things that keep us home so that someday in…
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Merdeka | 56th Malaysia’s Independence Day | My Sovereign Malaysia : My Native Land
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia’s 56th Independence Day Celebration at Independence Square Kuala Lumpur This is some of the photographs that I managed to captured during our National Day celebrations marking the 56th anniversary of the country’s independence at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur August 31st 2013. Unlike previous year (2012), this year I was assigned to cover the event from a static position in front of the main stage where the VVIP were seated. I was equipped with only one camera body which is Nikon D3 with 24-120 mm and 70-200 mm lens, actually the 70-200mm lens were not really suitable from this position but that’s all I’ve because…
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Travel | Stop Procrastinating | Live in The Present
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Uludag in Winter | Bursa Turkey Live In The Present Do not look back, and grieve over the past, For it is gone; Do not be troubled about the future, For it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful, That it will be worth remembering. – Anonymous – I read one great article recently in a newspaper. It is about postponing a happiness. It was happened at “Goal Setting Workshops” conducted by a renowned Malaysian Psychologist. During one of the session, the trainer requested all the participants to write down their future goals and their action plan to achieve…