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Into The Wild | Life is a Journey | Once Upon a Time in Langtang Valley
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | A Photograph of Me by Ahmad Shukri Against The Great Himalayan Range “If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.” – Jon Krakauer – “You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know…
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Nepal | Traveling | Explore. Dream. Discover
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Explore | Dream | Discover | Langtang Valley | Nepal | Himalaya “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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 – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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Travel Photography Tips | Give Your Photograph a Sense of Place
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Trekkers at Langtang National Park | Nepal | Himalaya “Most travel photographers make pictures to convey the appearance of a place. I try to make them to convey a “Sense of Place.” What exactly is a “Sense of Place?” To me, a “sense of place” means not just what a place actually “looks like,” but rather, how it feels, what it represents or once represented, and what it might mean to us. Making images that capture a “Sense of Place” usually involves expressing symbolic ideas central to the meaning of the place, instead of just descriptively recording its appearance. “ “No single image can usually…
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The Travel Photographer | Once Upon a Time in Langtang Valley | Nepal
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | Photograph of Me at Langtang Valley | Langtang National Park | Nepal “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain – I travel a lot and as a photographer, even though I took thousand of photos from my trip, very few of them have “my picture”, most of the times, it is about other people pictures, a stranger that I met along the way or just simple a…
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Traveling | A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Step
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | A Photograph of Me (The Author) Trekking The Langtang Valley Trek Towards Kyanjin Gompa | Langtang | Nepal With beauty before me, may I walk With beauty behind me, may I walk With beauty above me, may I walk With beauty below me, may I walk With beauty all around me, may I walk Wandering on the trail of beauty, may I walk – Navajo – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel