• Art,  Black and White,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Photojournalism

    Portrait Photography | Environmental Portrait

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Looking for Books | Kinokuniya Suria KLCC An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography. By photographing a person in their natural surroundings, it is thought that you will be able to better illuminate their character, and therefore portray the essence of their personality, rather than merely a likeness of their physical features. It is also thought that by photographing a person in their natural surroundings, the subject will be more at ease, and so be more conducive…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Travel

    A Walk To Remember | Black Sand Beach Langkawi

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black Sand Beach Jetty Langkawi A little bit history about Black Sand Beach Langkawi : The Black Sand Beach Of Langkawi is a major tourist attraction of the region. Visitors are awed by the black sands and the legends behind this occurrence are highly interesting as well. It narrates of a mythical giant eagle, Garuda, who kidnaps a Chinese princess with an intention to seek her favors. The princess’ heart however laid with her fiancé, a roman prince. The prince waged a deadly war against Garuda and sought out his beloved at Langkawi. It is believed that the remnants of this war can be seen…

  • Art,  Life,  People,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Location Portraiture

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | Langkawi Island | Royal Langkawi Yacht Club “And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel, it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind”. ( Dave Barry ) Portraiture is not about head and shoulder, sometimes we need to show our subject with it’s surroundings, where the picture is taken and what was the surroundings look like. If we travel as a tourist try to find a great background and is possible a landmark about that particular place, your subject may look small in the frame, that’s ok because the main purpose is to show where the…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Face,  Family,  Life,  Moment,  Photojournalism,  Portrait,  Travel

    Child Photography | Don’t Worry, Be Happy

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Time To Play | Pantai Tengah | Langkawi Island © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Time To Play | Pantai Tengah | Langkawi Island “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” | Pablo Picasso A child need not to worry so much, they just keep on playing and always exploring new things around him, always curious to know something, always curious about life about new environment, about new toys. Most of the times they get what they want, they are very persistent to get what they want. I know that not all children’s in this…

  • Book,  Family,  Life,  Portrait

    Portrait Photography | Baby Days Out

    © 2010 Wazari Wazir | My Son at Kinokuniya Bookstore “There is No Friend as Loyal as a Book” | Ernest Hemingway I spent my second day of Eid-ulFitr with my family at Kinokuniya Bookstore in KLCC, since most of my friends and relative are celebrating their Eid-ulFitr faraway from Kuala Lumpur or “Balik Kampung”, I decided to visit this bookstore, I thought it was empty but to my surprise there were may people inside the bookstore but I choose this “empty” space among the book shelf to photograph my son, actually we can’t take photograph here but I just make a quick snap when nobody around. This is my…