• Art,  Black and White,  Expression,  Family,  Life

    Happy Birthday My Son | Happy Birthday Raphael

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Raphael is One Year Old on 7th June 2012 | Syukur Alhamdulillah © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Happy Birthday Raphael – Anak – When you were born into this world Your mom and dad saw a dream fulfilled Dream come true The answer to their prayers You were to them a special child Gave ’em joy every time you smiled Each time you cried They’re at your side to care Child, you don’t know You’ll never know how far they’d go To give you all their love can give To see you through and God it’s true They’d die for you, if they must, to…

  • Art,  Editing,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photography | The RAW Advantage

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Winter in Kashmir | Snow White What is RAW? The RAW file format is digital photography’s equivalent of a negative in film photography, it contains untouched, “raw” pixel information straight from the digital camera’s sensor, on the other hand  if you shoot in  JPEG, the camera will do some post processing for you and as a result some of the details will be thorn away, or will be lost, and that’s why the JPEG file is small compared to RAW file and don’t be surprise to see that your JPEG files is better looking at your computer screen than your RAW files, the reason is that the…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Black and White,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Travel

    Portrait From Kashmir | The Mountain Man

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Mountain Man of Sonamarg | Kashmir | February 2012 When Jack London had his portrait made by the noted San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe, London began the encounter with effusive praise for the photographic art of his friend and fellow bohemian, Genthe. “You must have a wonderful camera…It must be the best camera in the world…You must show me your camera.” Genthe then used his standard studio camera to make what has since become a classic picture of Jack London. When the sitting was finished, Genthe could not contain himself: “I have read your books, Jack, and I think they are important works of…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Life,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Children of Sonamarg, Kashmir | Curiosity of a Stranger

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Children of Sonamarg Kashmir “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.” – Eleanor Roosevelt – “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”   – Walt Disney – “Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.” – John Locke – Tweet news…

  • 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…