• Adventure,  Travel

    Life is Tough | When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going

    © 2005 | Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time at Mount Kinabalu | Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett – “Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton – “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb – “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson – “When you come to the end of your rope,…

  • Adventure,  Travel

    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…

  • Adventure,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Dal Lake | Kashmir | Paradise on Earth

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Dal Lake | Kashmir “No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it?” – Donald Miller – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

  • Adventure,  Art,  Black and White,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Travel

    Portrait From Kashmir | The Mountain Man

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Mountain Man of Sonamarg | Kashmir | February 2012 When Jack London had his portrait made by the noted San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe, London began the encounter with effusive praise for the photographic art of his friend and fellow bohemian, Genthe. “You must have a wonderful camera…It must be the best camera in the world…You must show me your camera.” Genthe then used his standard studio camera to make what has since become a classic picture of Jack London. When the sitting was finished, Genthe could not contain himself: “I have read your books, Jack, and I think they are important works of…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Malaysia,  Travel

    The Man and The Mountain | Mount Kinabalu | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | The Man and The Mountain | Mount Kinabalu | Sabah “Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.”  – Edward Whymper –  Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel