• Art,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Winter Photography | Tips Shooting in The Snow

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Winter Photography in Kashmir | February 2012 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Snow White | Winter in Kashmir | Adobe Photoshop Camera RAW | 24mm | ISO 200 | 1/640 | f/8 Exposure can be very critical when shooting snow, most of the times your camera meter tend to underexposed the picture because your camera think that there is large white area in the frame and needs to underexposed to get a proper exposure. It is not adviseable shooting snow using Auto Mode, it doesn’t  matter whether you are using Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority of or fully Program Mode. All this metering will fool your…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Tourism,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Into The Wild | Kashmir in Winter

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Winter in Sonamarg | Kashmir February 2012 “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,…

  • Adventure,  Life,  Travel

    Travel Photography | India | New Delhi | Kashmir | Agra | Part VI

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Kashmiri Muslim devotees participate in a procession to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Mohammed in Pahalgam Srinagar, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Pahalgam in Winter | Kashmir On Sunday Feb 5, we decided to visit Pahalgam, which is approximately two hours drive from Dal Lake Srinagar. The night before we have a little bit of discussion with the hotel manager Mr Rouf, we ask his advise and telling him bout our interest in Photography. At first he suggest us to visit Gulmarg which is famous for ski resort but I told him that we are not very interested with skiing and…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Kashmir | The Road Less Traveled

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | iPhoneography | Dal Lake | Srinagar Kashmir “The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore … unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible … it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors … to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.”  – Ferdinand Magellan – “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Life,  Travel

    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.…