• Art,  Emotion,  Life,  Portrait,  Travel

    Family Outing | Cameron Highlands | A Moment to Remember

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | My Wife and Raphael | Cameron Highlands | Pahang Malaysia “What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever?”   – Thomas Wentworth Higginson – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

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    Travel The World | Live a Life Without Regrets

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Taj Mahal | Agra | India “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain – “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson – “Travel changes you. As you…

  • Life,  Photojournalism,  Politic

    Photojournalism | Featured in Malaysia Aperture Photography Magazine

    I’m not very good at blowing my very own horn or promoting myself, actually this interview with Aperture Magazine, Malaysia very own photography magazine was held in early January this year for February 2012 issues. I was interviewed by Mr Joe Aperture Magazine editor himself. They want me to share some of my experience working as one of Malaysia Official Government Photographer covering Malaysian history through photography. Actually it was quite a long interview and some of them get edited to fits the magazine. They asked me to give them some of my favorite pictures but only this few one got published, anyway if you wanted to see some of…

  • Family,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photoshop Editing | Playing With Color Tones

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | (Left) Original | (Right) After Editing With Photoshop I’ve wrote once that if we wanted to sell our pictures to the magazines or any publication, whether it is online or printed version, try to keep the color as natural as possible, it was very simple, the magazines, especially the travel magazine wanted to tell the truth, they don’t want to present false information. If the sky is blue, let it blue and if the grass is green, keep it green. On the other hand if you wanted to experiment with colors, play with portraiture or lifestyle photography, or simply for your very own personal blog…

  • Art,  eBook,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Travel,  Workshops Photoshop

    Photoshop Tips and Tricks | Faded Memories | Muted Colors

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Muted Colors Step One | The Original (Left) | Vintage Version (Right) I Just wanted to share my little secrets on how I did my tone in Photoshop, yes there are many ways to scan a cat and yes there are many ways to get this effect in Photoshop and I’ve tried some of them and sometimes I like one way more than the others. On the left photograph above is the original picture, just minor editing done, it was taken in late afternoon just before sunset in New Delhi, for those who doesn’t know what’s the monument is that, it is the famous India…