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Mount Kinabalu | Explore, Dream, Discover
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise From Low’s Peak of Mount Kinabalu | Sabah “You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place ? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.” – Rene Dauma – “The pleasure of risk is in…
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Photography Tips | When and Why You Should Use High ISO
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal and Raphael Playing WIth iPhone | ISO 2500 | 50mm | F/1.4 | 1/60 I believe that some of you who own a DSLR are afraid to use High ISO and some of you especially newbie, those who just started photography as a hobby fully dependent on Program Mode and rarely use Manual Mode when it comes to camera setting, some entry level DSLR which have build in pop up flash when you set the camera to Auto or Program Mode, they will automatically switch on the pop up flash when the camera sensor “think” that the lighting was not enough for normal photography…
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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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Travel Photography | Postcard From Langtang National Park | Nepal Himalaya
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | iPhone 4 | Langtang National Park | Nepal | November 15, 2012 | 11:37AM “I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.” – Tony Robbins – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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Travel iPhoneography | Kashmir in Winter 2012
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Kashmir in Winter | February 2012 “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” – Andrew Wyeth – “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” – Lewis Carrol – “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.…