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Photojournalism | Mark Rutte | From Amsterdam To Kuala Lumpur
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (R) shakes hands with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak as he receives him at the Parliament building in The Hague, the Netherlands, on July 31, 2014. © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (L) and Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak walk during an official visit to discuss the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH17 in Putrajaya, Malaysia on November 5, 2014. Just wanted to share with you guys some of the photographs taken at Netherlands Parliament building in The Hague during Malaysia Prime Minister official visit to Netherlands on july 31st and recent picture taken during Dutch Prime…
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Natural Light Portrait Photography
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Raphael Portrait With Window Natural Light | 50 mm | f/2.8 | ISO 100 | 1/200 © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Raphael Portrait With Natural Light | 50 mm | f/2.8 | ISO 100 | 1/200 If you have been following my blog, you will know that I like using natural light when it comes to photographing my kids. Natural light is free, but it is not available all the time, unlike using flash photography or artificial light, you can use it all the time. So the real challenge when using natural light is that, you need to act quickly before it gets too dark. The…
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Family Outing | China-Malaysia Friendship Garden | Putrajaya
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Haiqal and Raphael Looks a Little Bit Tense Because They Wanted To Be Free © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Arianna With Her Mother | Arianna With Her Grandmother (Right) © 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Family at China-Malaysia Friendship Garden China-Malaysia Friendship Garden is another new interesting place or landmark in Putrajaya, it is quite an interesting place to have a photograph taken here but unfortunately I don’t have much to show you here. I was here with my family and together with my mother, I don’t want to make this family outing as a photography trip, because doing that will take too much time…
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A Portrait of My Children | Black and White Portraiture
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of Seven Year Old HaiQal © 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of Three Year Old Raphael © 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of One Year Old Arianna Wearing Russian Ushanka It’s been quite awhile since I posted a black and white portraiture of my children. Lately I like colour photography more than black and white, maybe I want to remember the colours of their clothing and the colours of their environment. Famous Canadian photographer Ted Grant once said that “When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”. I…
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Photojournalism | Muslims Celebrate Eid Al-Adha In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Muslims Sat On A Street Before Performing Special Eid Al-Adha Prayer Here in Kuala Lumpur, October 5, 2014. Eid al-Adha, or the Sacrifice Festival, is one of the major Islamic festivals. It falls on the 10th Zulhijjah on the Islamic calendar. Muslims all over the world are celebrating the festival of sacrifice, one of the most important holidays in Islam. Eid al-Adha celebrations start after the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, by Muslims worldwide. The photographs above were not taken for my assignment, I just wanted to captured the spirit of Eid Al-Adha among the muslims foreigner living in Kuala Lumpur, especially…