• Adventure,  Travel

    Life is a Journey | Adventure is Out There | Face Your Fear

    © 2012 Team Langtang 2012 | Nepal Himalaya “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It’s…

  • Adventure,  Travel

    Traveling | A Glimpse of Thamel Kathmandu

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Thamel | Kathmandu | Nepal I just wanted to share with you a random shot taken around Thamel area on our last day in Kathmnadu before flying back home the next day on November 22nd 2012. I really don’y have much time exploring this a area for truly photographic purpose, undoubtedly Thamel will be a heaven for street photographers but even though we stay in Thamel, most of our times here are spending doing the necessary work getting the trekking permit and getting some of our trekking gear because the number one purpose we are here in Neal is for trekking. In Thamel we stay…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Family

    Backlighting Photography Tips | Use Manual Focus

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter | Backlighting Photography | 50 mm | ISO 200 | 1/400 | F/2 Previously I’d wrote about backlighting photography tips, but that one focus more about getting the right exposure, because shooting into the light or backlighting can be very tricky to get the right exposure, using Program Mode usually is not the right choice because your camera meter can easily be fooled by the huge amount of light coming to the lens and most of the times, your subject will get underexposed. So the best thing that you can do to overcome those problems is to switch to Manual Mode and…

  • Book

    Photography | Sharp Shooter | Proven Techniques for Sharper Photographs

    © 2013 Craft and Vision | Sharp Shooter | Proven Techniques for Sharper Photographs By Martin Bailey “Center, Manually Selected, or All Focus Points: Whether your camera has 9 or 61 focus points, you choose which to focus with. Many people favour the center focus point, because it’s often the most accurate and simply because it’s in the middle. Also, using all of your focus points with automatic selection can lead to the camera focusing on the wrong part of the scene. Another option is to either use just one or a small group of focus points, but select something other than the central group. Let’s explore when and why…

  • Art,  Book

    Life After Art By Matt Appling | Book Review

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Life After Art | Matt Appling “How many years has it been since you were covered in paint in your elementary school’s art room? After reading Life after Art, you may want  to go back.  Matt takes readers on a journey to the art room to discover our purpose in life, which can be found in our God-given ability to create beauty for the world to see.” – ANNE JACKSON- (Speaker and author of Permission to Speak Freely: Essay & Art on Fear, Confession & Grace and Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic) First thing first, I’m not really good at writing a book…