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Travel Photography | Istanbul | Istiklal Caddesi | Life On The Street
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Istanbul Turkey | Istiklal Caddesi This is not my latest picture, but a photograph taken last year, November 2009 at Istiklal Caddesi. Located in the Beyoğlu district in the modern part of Istanbul, Istiklal Caddesi (Independence Street) is the most famous pedestrian street in Istanbul. This three kilometer long avenue stretches from Taksim Square to Tünel, the world’s second-oldest subway. This place is visited by nearly 3 million people in a single day over the course of weekends. I’ve already share this very same picture in this blog before but in colors, back then I don’t have the time to play around with different kind of editing…
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Portrait | Black and White Photography Tips
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son Some people say, doing black and white is easy, I mean to convert from a color picture to black and white is a simple process as simple as A,B,C, it’s true, it’s very easy, just desaturate it or covert it into grey scale and you get black and white photograph, but to get a quality black and white photograph is not easy, at least for me, it was very easy for me to edit a color photograph than to edit a black and white picture. A lot of people have ask me, how I do my black and white editing, I…
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Picture is worth a Thousand Words | A Portrait of My Family A picture is worth a thousand words, we have heard this quote, time and time again, and it was so true, sometimes words just not enough, we need to show it visually, so people can understand a story without telling it verbally. The quote above is sometimes attributed to emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who said “Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours,” or “A good sketch is better than a long speech”. A picture above is a picture of my wife and my son, sharing a happy moment together, my wife try…
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India | Catatan Perjalanan
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | Taj Mahal | Agra | India Apakah aku bermimpi? Itulah petanyaan yang sering saya tanyakan diri saya tatkala berhadapan dengan Taj Mahal, salah satu keajaiban dunia yang berjaya ku lihat dengan anak mata ku sendiri, sebelum ini hanya melihat gambaran Taj Mahal melaui kaca televisyen dan juga di majalah-majalah pelancungan dan juga majalah yang berkaitan dengan fotografi. Hinga kini, setelah lebih sebulan kembali ke tanah air, masih lagi terngiang-ngiang di telinga bunyi keretapi merentasi benua India yng cukup berwarna warni. Kali ini biarlah saya coretkan catatan perjalanan saya dalam Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa yang mudah difahami oleh rakyat Malaysia secara umumnya, sebelum ini…
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Travel Photography | The Importance of Keywords
© 2007 Wazari Wazir | Taman Negara | Malaysia National Park | Batek People This is a picture of Batek people, one of Malaysia’s aboriginal groups, some people call them “Orang Asli”. I took this picture at the riverbank of Sungai Tembeling, National Park in Pahang. They are “nomadic”, moving from one place to another. I’m not going to write about Batek People here, or to tell you the history of Batek People settlement here in Malaysia but the purpose of this post is about “Keywords”. This blog will concentrate more on photography and nothing else. If you like to know about Batek people I,m very sure you can do…