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Travel Photography Tips | Choosing The Right Lens
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photographer | Dal Lake | Kashmir To be honest with you, actually there is no such things as the right lense, one size does not fits all. Talking about travel photography, most people travel for a different reason, some travel just to record their memories, some travel like they are doing unofficial unpaid assignment for National Geographic magazines where they carry tons of equipment. Personally for me, I like to travel light and if you asked me what lense I carry during my visit to Kashmir and Istanbul recently, I just carry with me two prime lenses which is Canon 24mm f/2.8 and 50mm…
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Travel Photography | Princes’ Island | Büyükada | Adalar | Istanbul Turkey
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Princes’ Island | Büyükada | Adalar | Istanbul Turkey The Princes’ Islands (Turkish: Prens Adaları “Prince Islands”, or more commonly Kızıl Adalar “Red Islands” or just Adalar as they are officially named; classical Greek: Πριγκήπων νήσοι Prinkēpōn nēsoi), are a chain of nine islands off the coast ofIstanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara. The islands also constitute the Adalar (literally Islands or Isles) district of Istanbul Province. The mayor of the Adalar (Isles) district is Mustafa Farsakoğlu (CHP); WikiPedia The largest island in the group, Büyükada (Great Island) shows is impressive from the ferry, with gingerbread villas climbing up the slopes of the hill and the bulbous twin cupolas of the Splendid Otel providing an unmistakable landmark. It’s a truly lovely spot to spend an…
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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 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…
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Travel Photography | India | New Delhi | Kashmir | Agra | Part III
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Above The Himalaya from New Delhi to Srinagar Kashmir © 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Above The Himalaya from New Delhi to Srinagar Kashmir © 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Above The Himalaya from New Delhi to Srinagar Kashmir © 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Above The Himalaya from New Delhi to Srinagar Kashmir | Approaching Srinagar Airport © 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Swiss Hotel Kashmir | Srinagar We have already arrange our taxi the night before departure with Vivek Hotel management and paid Rs300 for the trip to the airport. Our flight depart at Terminal 1 at…