-
Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time at Eminönü | Istanbul Turkey
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time at Eminonu | Istanbul Eminönü is a former district of Istanbul in Turkey, now a neighbourhood of Fatih district. This is the heart of the walled city of Constantine, the focus of a history of incredible richness. Eminönü covers roughly the area on which the ancient Byzantium was built. The Galata Bridge crosses the Golden Horn into Eminönü and the mouth of the Bosphorus opens into the Marmara Sea. Up on the hill stands Topkapı Palace, the Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii) and Hagia Sophia (Aya Sofya). Thus Eminönü is the main tourist destination in Istanbul. It was a part of the…
-
Travel | Stop Procrastinating | Live in The Present
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Uludag in Winter | Bursa Turkey Live In The Present Do not look back, and grieve over the past, For it is gone; Do not be troubled about the future, For it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful, That it will be worth remembering. – Anonymous – I read one great article recently in a newspaper. It is about postponing a happiness. It was happened at “Goal Setting Workshops” conducted by a renowned Malaysian Psychologist. During one of the session, the trainer requested all the participants to write down their future goals and their action plan to achieve…
-
Life After Art By Matt Appling | Book Review
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Life After Art | Matt Appling “How many years has it been since you were covered in paint in your elementary school’s art room? After reading Life after Art, you may want to go back. Matt takes readers on a journey to the art room to discover our purpose in life, which can be found in our God-given ability to create beauty for the world to see.” – ANNE JACKSON- (Speaker and author of Permission to Speak Freely: Essay & Art on Fear, Confession & Grace and Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic) First thing first, I’m not really good at writing a book…
-
Travel Photography | Postcard From Kashmir | A Troubled Paradise
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Kashmir | Paradise on Earth | A Troubled Paradise “A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea…Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don’t go right now, we’re never going to do it. And we’ll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.” – Tim Cahill – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
-
Photography | Mount Kinabalu | A Camera is Just a Tool
© 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/160 | ISO 200 | f7.1 © 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/250 | ISO 200 | f/8 © 2005 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu | Nikon D70s | Lens 18-70mm | 1/160 | ISO 200 | f/7.1 Some people really doesn’t get it, that a camera is just a tool. It doesn’t have brain on its own. I know that they have been programed for certain functions like how to calculate a meter reading depending on the lighting situation, how to determine wether the focus is sharp…