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Pokhara Nepal | Postcard From Himalaya
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Phewa Lake | Pokhara Nepal “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white…
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Travel Photography Tips | Don’t Forget To Add Foreground Interest
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Lake | Pokhara Nepal Landscape photographers knows this very well, it is a secret ingredients for a successful landscape photography but you can also use foreground interest for any kind of photographic genre. Your foreground subject can be your main subject or just as a compliments for the entire photograph, I mean you don’t really need to add a foreground interest but by adding the foreground interest, it will make it more complete. For the photograph above, the main subject is not those two boats, but the Himalayan Mountain behind, or to be exact the Annapurna Range, the photograph were taken at Phewa Lake in…
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Travel Photography | Eye On Kashmir
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Kashmir | Dal Lake Talking about Kashmir, actually to be honest with you, I really don’t know how to describe it and no matter how I try, no matter how hard I try to photograph Kashmir the best that I can do with my camera, I don’t think my photographs can do justice to its beauty. Yes Kashmir has it own problem, my country also has it’s own problem but then I can see beauty in Kashmir and I’m not here by accident, I choose to be here. I don’t believe what people say about Kashmir, I want to find…
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Nepal | Sunset at Pokhara | Phewa Lake
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sunset at Phewa Lake | Pokhara | Nepal Pokhara Sub-Metropolitan City (Nepali: पोखरा उपमहानगरपालिका Pokharā Upa-Mahānagarpālikā) is the second largest city of Nepal with approximately 300,000 inhabitants and is situated about 200 km west of the capital Kathmandu. It serves as the headquarters of Kaski District, Gandaki Zone and the Western Development Region. Pokhara is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Nepal. Three out of the ten highest mountains in the world: Dhaulagiri, Annapurna I and Manaslu or Lamjung himal are situated within 30 miles (linear distance) of the city so that the northern skyline of the city offers a very close view…
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Why Travel? | Life is a Journey | Once Upon a Time in Kashmir
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Kashmir | Dal Lake Kashmir “People from all over the world have passed through this village, son,” said his father. “They come in search of new things, but when they leave they are basically the same people they were when they arrived. They climb the mountain to see the castle, and they wind up thinking that the past was better than what we have now. They have blond hair, or dark skin, but basically they’re the same as the people who live right here.” “But I’d like to see the castles in the towns where they live,” the boy explained.…