• Art,  Family

    Family Photography | Raphael is Three Years Old | Happy Birthday Raphael

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Celebrating Raphael Three Years Old | 7th June 2014 “If these picture have anything important to say to future generations, it’s this, I was here, existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture” – Robin Williams – My son Raphael is three years old today, 7th June 2014. As usual no big Happy Birthday Celebration, just a small party, only  six of us. On the left side of the photograph above is my mother holding Arianna, Raphael, HaiQal and my wife and off course the photographer, me. No, we are not celebrating Earth…

  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression

    Portrait of HaiQal | A Painting By Andrej

    © 2014 Andrej Blazon | A Painting of My Son Portrait by Andrej Blazon © 2014 Wazari Wazir  | Portrait of HaiQal | My Son Dear Mr. Wazir, I’m a hobbyist artist and I liked a portrait photo of your son so much I used it as a reference for a practice in drawing a while ago. I didn’t plan to publish it. Now I would like to send the drawing to a competition. I thought the photo was free to use but just to be sure I looked it up again and found out it was copyrighted. I would very much like to enter this competition and would like to…

  • Art,  Family,  Moment

    Mother and Daughter | Once Upon a Time on a Rainy Day

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and Daughter Arianna On a Rainy Day “Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”  – Paulo Coelho – Actually it  was raining, just a light drizzle, I did try to use slower shutter speed like 1/30, so that the rain can be a little bit more visible but then, once I tried using that slow shutter speed, I get a blurry photo, not because my hand wasn’t steady but a sudden movement…

  • Assignment,  Life,  Photojournalism

    Photojournalism | Selfie With The Prime Minister Najib Razak

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Selfie With The Prime Minister Najib Razak at KLCC According to Oxford Dictionaries, Selfie is a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website. Selfie is the norm nowadays, people do it almost every time and everywhere, but it is not everyday occurrence that someone get a chance to take a selfie with a Prime Minister. Anyway I took the photograph above during my assignment for KL Car-Free Morning in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday morning. After the flag-off at 7am in front of KLCC, Prime Minister Najib Razak, walk to get his…