• Art,  Black and White,  Family,  Travel

    Postcard from Uludag | Bursa in WInter

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Snowstorm in Uludag | Bursa Turkey “Then Come The Wild Weather, Come Sleet or Come Snow, We Will Stand by Each Other, However it Blow.” – Simon Dach – We were hit hard by snowstorm during our arrival at Uludag after about one hour journey by a taxi from our hotel in Bursa. I really wish before our departure that we will get a nice weather, a dry snowy scene so that I can take a beautiful picture of my family against the white snow but instead, we were greeted  by a heavy snowstorm. Anyway I think, it is a blessing in disguise, despite the…

  • Adventure,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photography | Adobe Lightroom Dave Delnea’s Develop Presets

    © 2013 Craft and Vision| Dave Delnea’s Develop Preset This Adobe Lightroom Develop Preset Package is 46 of Dave Delnea’s most used presets and a 28-page PDF manual, which includes installation instructions, and complete before/after catalog of photographs of each preset to give you a sense of what to expect. Presets are extremely helpful in making one’s workflow more efficient. | Craft and Vision I’ve always told my friends that if they wanted to develop or edit a large set of a photographs, nothing could be better than using a presets, it doesn’t matter whether you wanted to use Photoshop or Lightroom presets, whatever that can help you speed up your…

  • Art,  Family,  Travel

    Photography | A Printed Memory From Istanbul

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | A Printed Memory | Priceless Piece of a Papers “A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.” ( Albert Einstein ) I’ve written few blog post about  about printing your digital photographs and I don’t want to create another long post here, anyway, I try to make it a…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Istanbul | Basilica Cistern and The Mystery of Medusa

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Basilica Cistern | The Entrance © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Basilica Cistern and Medusa It was very easy to miss this place, I’ve been to Istanbul thrice and only during my third visit that I was able to locate this place. Actually it is not hidden somewhere but very easily to go unnoticed. The entrance to the Basilica Cistern of Istanbul is across the street from the Haghia Sophia, opposite the yellow building of the Tourist Police in Sultanahmet. This immense underground water container was built during the reign of Emperor Justinian I in 532 to meet the water needs of the Great Palace. This…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Heritage Red Tram | Istiklal Caddesi | Taksim | Istanbul

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Istanbul Heritage Red Tram | Istiklal Caddesi | Taksim There are many great looking modern trams in Istanbul but this one in Taksim Square is quite unique looking, and antique. There is a long history about the reintroduction of this tram in Istanbul, but I’m not going to write about it here, I think the most interesting things is to know is how you can get on board. You can only found this Heritage Tram in Istiklal  Caddesi. So if you staying somewhere in Sultanahmet area, the fastest way to get here is to take the modern tram to Kabatas, the last tram station on…

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