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Travel Photography Tips | Think About Contrast
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Langtang National Park | Nepal | Himalaya To be honest with you, I’m not a fan of bright colourful clothing but when it comes to photography, it is another story, the man in the photograph above is my traveling companion Ahmad Shukri, back in Kuala Lumpur, one week before our Nepal Adventure, we shop around in Kuala Lumpur to get the right clothing for our trekking journey into the Himalaya, I get the red coloured one but that was the only stock they have, so I tell my friend why don’t take the black one, same material and design but with a different colour. Black…
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New Year 2013 | New Adventure | Explore, Dream , Discover
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise at Sarangkot | Pokhara | Nepal “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain – Talking about new year, I don’t have any resolution but to make each and every day count, try to make it better than yesterday, try to seek a new adventure, after all, we just have one life to live. I don’t have to live the way your live and you…
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Into The Wild | Langtang National Park | Nepal Himalaya
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Langtang Valley | Langtang National Park | Nepal “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing…
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Travel Photography | Ortaköy Mosque Under Restoration
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Ortaköy Mosque Under Restortion | Istanbul Turkey Ortaköy (literally Middle Village in Turkish) is a neighbourhood, formerly a small village, within the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, located in the middle of the European bank of the Bosphorus. Ortaköy was a cosmopolitan area during the Ottoman era and the first decades of the Turkish Republic, with communities of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Jews. Today the neighbourhood still hosts many different religious (Muslim, Jewish, Orthodox, and other Christian) structures. It is also a popular spot for locals and tourists alike, with its art galleries, night clubs, cafés, bars, and restaurants. The Neo-Baroque style Ortaköy Mosque is…
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Adventure is Out There | Everything Starts With a Dream
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Trekkers at Langtang Valley Trek | Langtang National Park | Nepal “The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.” – Richard Nelson – Have you watch UP, it is a 2009 American 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure…