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Postcard From Langtang Nepal | Take The Risk
© 2012 Photograph of Me Taken By Ahmad Shukri On The Way To Kyanjin Gompa | Langtang Nepal “Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.” – Philip Andrew Adams – Just wanted to make a quick post today, to those of you out there, who have a dream, a desire to do something, traveling the world for an instance, who have the capacity to fulfills their dream, who have the time, have the money and in a very great health conditions but…
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Nepal | Langtang | Road Less Traveled | The Road Not Taken
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Langtang National Park | Nepal The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how…
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Travel Photography Tips | Think About Contrast
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Langtang National Park | Nepal | Himalaya To be honest with you, I’m not a fan of bright colourful clothing but when it comes to photography, it is another story, the man in the photograph above is my traveling companion Ahmad Shukri, back in Kuala Lumpur, one week before our Nepal Adventure, we shop around in Kuala Lumpur to get the right clothing for our trekking journey into the Himalaya, I get the red coloured one but that was the only stock they have, so I tell my friend why don’t take the black one, same material and design but with a different colour. Black…
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Travel and Photography | Photography Equipment | Have Camera Will Travel
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | Langtang National Park Nepal | Photograph of Me Taken by Ahmad Shukri People often ask me, what type of camera and lenses I carry when I travel, actually I’ve answer this question more than I can remember, I like to travel light and currently I just have one camera body with me which is Canon 5D Mark II and two sets of prime lens, 24mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.4. I’ve to say from my experience, prime lens is not user friendly lens when it come for travel photography, there is so much limitation, it is not practical. But then, I’m traveling just for the sake…
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Explore, Dream, Discover | Langtang National Park | Nepal
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | A Photograph of Me Taken by Ahmad Shukri, Enjoying The Magnificent View of Himalaya “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”. – Mark Twain – By now you should already know why we took more than eight to ten hours of trekking time to get from one point over another, when normally all it takes is four to five hours from one post to another. We stop a lot,…