• Art,  Travel

    Once Upon a Time in Kashmir | It’s The Journey That’s Matter

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Floating Vegetable Market | Dal Lake | Kashmir The Journey “Journey are gifts we give ourselves. Even if you are lucky, and have someone else footing the bill for your journey, you are still giving yourself a gift just by going. Too many people have opportunities to travel, but choose to stay home, fearful of the unknown, shackled by their everyday rut, tied down to commitments that don’t have to tie them down if they would seek creative solutions. We can always travel right away, but we can always be planning, scheming, chiseling away at the things that keep us home so that someday in…

  • Art,  Assignment,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Merdeka | 56th Malaysia’s Independence Day | My Sovereign Malaysia : My Native Land

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia’s 56th Independence Day Celebration at Independence Square Kuala Lumpur This is some of the photographs that I managed to captured during  our National Day celebrations marking the 56th anniversary of the country’s independence at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur August 31st 2013. Unlike previous year (2012), this year I was assigned to cover the event from a static position in front of the main stage where the VVIP were seated. I was equipped with only one camera body which is Nikon D3 with 24-120 mm and 70-200 mm lens, actually the 70-200mm lens were not really suitable from this position but that’s all I’ve because…

  • Art,  Assignment,  Black and White,  Photojournalism

    Merdeka | 56th Malaysia Independence Day in Black and White

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia 56th Independence Day | Independence Square Kuala Lumpur Photograph taken during a full day rehearsal of Malaysia 56th Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur. I spend quite a bit of time here, taking pictures of this flag bearers getting ready. I’m sorry guys, I’m not really into writing a long article here, too much going on here and I’m quite busy lately but I still have a lot of photographs to be shared. Anyway just enjoy this photograph and one more thing, to those of you who plan to visit Malaysia especially Kuala Lumpur, please be sure to visit this place known locally as “Dataran…

  • Assignment,  Black and White,  Photojournalism

    Photojournalist Behind The Scene | President South Africa Official Visit To Malaysia

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Photojournalist at Work | President South Africa H.E Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma Official Visit To Malaysia Some of the photograph taken during the Official Visit of H.E Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, President of South Africa and Spouse to Malaysia on 26th August 2013 at Putrajaya. The flow of the event, more or less will be quite the same. Once the president arrived, he will inspect the honour guard, then he will be introduce to cabinet ministers and the ambassadors to Malaysia and proceed to have a quick photo op for photographers at the top of the stairs outside Prime Ministers Office. For the top photograph above where,…

  • Adventure,  Photojournalism

    My Sovereign Malaysia : My Native Land | Malaysia 56 Independence Day

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Malaysiaku Berdaulat | Tanah Tumpahnya Darahku | My Sovereign Malaysia : My Native Land | Malaysia  56 Independence Day On my way back from Putra World Trade Centre PWTC, I saw this group of high rise building workers making a finishing touch, putting a sticker flags and Malaysia 56 Independence Day theme at Sime Darby building here in Kuala Lumpur. Most of the times I didn’t get a chance to see how it is done, what I normally saw is a complete picture and I had no idea how they do it and  luckily today I manage to captured a behind the scene on how…