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Family Photography | It’s The Moment That Matters
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son | Family Photography It’s been awhile that I play around with texture in my photograph, at one time I’m obsessed with texture and I find it very hard to get it right and after awhile, after I know how to get it right, I no longer find it challenging and that’s the reason why nowadays I rarely playing with texture in Photoshop. Anyway this photograph of my family, my wife and my son Raphael, still can stand on it’s own, with or without the editing, the reason is that it’s the moment that matters. Even though if I took this photograph with…
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Life is a Journey | Explore, Dream, Discover | Adventure is Out There
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Road Less Taken | Sonamarg Kashmir © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Taj Mahal | Agra Die Slowly He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never changes pace, who does not risk and change the color of his clothes, who does not speak and does not experience, dies slowly. He or she who shuns passion, who prefers black on white, dotting ones i’s rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer, that turn a yawn into a smile, that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings, dies slowly. He…
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Travel Photography | Children of Himalaya | Kashmir
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Kashmiri Children Wearing a Phiren (The Kashmiri Cloak) | Photograph Taken With 24mm Prime Lens To some people this photograph is messy, cluttered with messy background but to me each and everything in this photograph give context to the photograph, they tell the real story about the subject, photographers usually called this an environmental portrait because it does not only shows the person in the photographs, they also tell where this picture is taking, the mountain and the snow shows that this photograph were taken during cold winter. During my recent visit to Kashmir on February 2012, I take a lot of environmental portrait more…
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Photography Tips | Low Light Conditions Without Using Flash
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sarawak Cultural Show | Annah Rais Longhouse Sarawak | 24-70mm | ISO 200 | f/5.6 | 1/200 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sarawak Cultural Show | Annah Rais Longhouse Sarawak | 24-70mm | ISO 2000 | f/2.8 | 1/250 I’ve to admit that I’m the one that hate using flash during any photography assignment but sometimes I’ve no other option but to use flash because I’m not working for myself, and since my department require good photographs in the sense of sharp looking image and well lit subject, whereby artistic looking image are not welcome. Anyway back to the photograph above, if you have read…
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Travel Photography | Sarawak Cultural Show at Annah Rais Longhouse
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Traditional Cultural Show | Annah Rais Longhouse | Padawan Sarawak Some of the Sarawak Cultural Show at Annah Rais Longhouse during the state visit of the President of Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus to Kuching Sarawak. Annah Rais settlement is the oldest in Sarawak as it has existed more than 200 years ago. The traditional architectural design of the Bidayuh longhouses has continued to be preserved. Annah Rais longhouse is located at Padawan District, approximately 60 km away from the Kuching city, Sarawak, Malaysia. Normally I did not bother to take as much as cultural performance which normally being perform to entertain the VVIP, I’ve quite a lot of…