• Assignment,  Culture,  Malaysia,  People,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Photojournalism | Choosing The Best Point of View

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | An elephant leads the procession of the arrival of Malaysia’s outgoing king Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin and queen Nur Zahirah (unseen) before departing for their home state of Terengganu, at an airport in Sepang outside Kuala Lumpur on December 12, 2011. Sultan Mizan, Malaysia’s 13 king, proclaimed in 2006, completed his reign on Monday (Dec 12, 2011) after a five-year rotation period. Sultan Mizan is the sultan for the northeastern state of Terengganu. What is point of view? Basically it is the position, direction, heigh of the camera that will define the point of view of a picture. If you asked me what is the…

  • 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…

  • Adventure,  Life,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Sea Gypsies | Life By The Sea

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Sea Gypsies | Semporna | Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo “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 – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

  • Assignment,  Black and White,  History,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Prime Minister

    Photojournalism | The Assignment

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia Prime Minister (L) Najib Razak and his Qatar’s  counterpart Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani talk during the state welcoming ceremony in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, December 5, 2011. My schedule is a little bit pack recently, lots of assignment going on here and there and I hardly can keep up with my blog. Some of them are with sharing here while others I just posted on my flickr. Feel free to visit there in case I haven’t posted it here just yet. This is part of my job but don’t worry though, I will not flooded my blog with all this political pictures, I know…