• 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…

  • 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…

  • Art,  Life,  People,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Location Portraiture

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Langkawi Island | Royal Langkawi Yacht Club “And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel, it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind”. ( Dave Barry ) Portraiture is not about head and shoulder, sometimes we need to show our subject with it’s surroundings, where the picture is taken and what was the surroundings look like. If we travel as a tourist try to find a great background and is possible a landmark about that particular place, your subject may look small in the frame, that’s ok because the main purpose is to show where the…