• Travel

    Travel | Amsterdam | The Secret of Happiness

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam | Netherland A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men.  The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was looking for.  However, instead of finding a holy man, our hero entered a room and saw a great deal of activity; merchants coming and going, people chatting in the corners, a small orchestra playing sweet melodies, and there was a table laden with the most delectable dishes of that part of the world.…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Travel and Photography | Take Me To Ubud | Bali Most Literary Town

    © 2014 Hello Bali Magazine | October 2013 Issue | Volume 18 | No 10 © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Penestanan Rice Field | Ubud | Bali People came from from all over the world to visit Bali for wide variety of reason. Bali is known for its exotic location, island of a thousand temples, yes there are thousand of them, one of the reason is that, at the minimum each village have three main temple or “pura”. Anyway like I said, people visited Bali for wide variety of a reason, some like its beaches especially to surf and some others because of spiritual reason and artistic reason. For me…

  • Art,  Editing,  Expression,  Face,  Life,  Portrait

    Photography | How To Crop Images

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | Senior Portrait | Lake Garden For me cropping is an art in itself, some people prefer to do a cropping in the camera, we don’t call it a cropping if you do it in the camera but that’s composition. We can make good composition right in the camera if we have the time to do that, like taking a portrait in the studio, shoot landscape, architecture, when you almost have total control of your subject but sometimes when it comes to shoot fast moving subject, sports for an example it is difficult to get a nice composition in the frame, because the subject moving so…