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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…
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iPhoneography | A Printed Memory | A Photograph Never Grows Old
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | A Printed Memory | My Son Raphael “A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.” – Albert Einstein – I’ve to admit that compared to film days, when I was shooting with film, I prints a lot, mostly each of 36 frames exposed will be printed those days,…
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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…
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Children Photography | A Child’s Play | A Moment to Remember
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Raphael Playing With iPad | 24mm | f/2.8 | ISO 2000 | 1/125 “Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” Kay Redfield Jamison (professor of psychiatry) “The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” – Plato – “Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.” – Nietzsche – (philosopher, writer) Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel