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The Pros and Cons of Traveling Solo For Photographer’s
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | A Photograph of Me Standing (Posing) on a Hanging Bridge in Langtang Valley | Nepal To begin with, I’ve never done any solo traveling before but I can share with you guys what I think about solo traveling, it’s pros and cons, and to begin with, I will never get the photos of myself above standing on that hanging bridge in Langtang Valley if I were traveling alone, the picture above were taken by my traveling companion, Ahmad Shukri, we takes turn photographing each other. Traveling solo or alone is not for everyone, and if you ever wanted to try solo traveling, I highly recommended…
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Traveling | Why Walk When You Can Fly
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Flying Back Home From Kathmandu To Kuala Lumpur Why Walk When You Can Fly In this world there’s a whole lot of trouble, baby In this world there’s a whole lot of pain In this world there’s a whole lot of trouble But a whole lot of ground to gain Why take when you could be giving, why watch as the world goes by It’s a hard enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly In this world there’s a whole lot of sorrow In this world there’s a whole lot of shame In this world there’s a whole lot of sorrow…
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A Sense of Place | Finding Your Eye At Home And Abroad
© 2012 Craft and Vision | Younes Bounhar | A Sense of Place | Finding Your Eye At Home and Abroad “Most travel photographers make pictures to convey the appearance of a place. I try to make them to convey a “Sense of Place.” What exactly is a “Sense of Place?” To me, a “sense of place” means not just what a place actually “looks like,” but rather, how it feels, what it represents or once represented, and what it might mean to us. Making images that capture a “Sense of Place” usually involves expressing symbolic ideas central to the meaning of the place, instead of just descriptively recording its…
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Travel and Photography | Istanbul | Grand Bazaar On Instagram
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Grand Bazaar Istanbul | Photograph Taken With iPhone | Edited With Instagram The Grand Bazaar is located inside the walled city of Istanbul, in the district of Fatih and in the neighborhood (Turkish: Mahalle) bearing the same name (“Kapalıçarşı”). It stretches roughly from west to east between the mosques of Beyazit and of Nuruosmaniye. The Bazaar can easily be reached from Sultanahmet and Sirkeci by tram ( Line “T1”, tram stop “Beyazıt-Kapalıçarşı”). The construction of the future Grand Bazaar’s core started during the winter of 1455/56, shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. Sultan Mehmet II had an edifice erected devoted to the trading of…
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Fotografi Kembara | Istanbul Aku Datang | Spice Bazaar | Istanbul Turkey
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Spice Bazaar | Istanbul | Turkey Antara tarikan utama di Istanbul Selain daripada Masjid Biru dan Muzium Aya Sofya ialah Grand Bazaar dan Spice Bazaar ataupun Pasar Rempah yang terletak di Eminönü, Spice Bazaar ini terletak tidak jauh dari Yeni Camii ataupun lebih dikenali dengan The New Mosque, jangan pula kita keliru dengan nama “New Mosque” ini, walaupun namanya ialah “Masjid Baru, namun usia masjid ini melebihi empat ratus tahun. Spice Bazaar ialah bazaar kedua terbesar selepas Grand Bazaar, ianya dibina sekitar tahun 1660. Terletak di Eminönü, sekiranya anda menginap di hotel sekitar Sultanahmet, maka untuk ke Eminönü anda boleh memilih untuk berjalan kaki (lebih kurang 30 minit dari…