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Travel Photography | Children of Balat | Istanbul Turkey
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Children of Balat | Istanbul Turkey Balat is the traditional Jewish quarter in the Fatih district of Istanbul. It is located on the European side of Istanbul, in the old city on the historic peninsula, on the western bank of the Golden Horn. (Another Istanbul neighborhood deeply associated with Jewish settlement is Kuzguncuk on the Asian shore.) Today Balat is a working-class district on the shores of the Golden Horn. Though it once had as many as nineteen synagogues, only two of importance remain, the famous Ahrida, and the neighboring Yanbol. The site of a Jewish school is close by, and Or Ahayim Jewish Hospital…
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Children of Heaven | Mabul Island | Sabah
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Children of Heaven | Mabul Island | Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo “We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt – “Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don’t usually act in such a manner. If they feel…
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Travel Photography | Children of Sonamarg, Kashmir | Curiosity of a Stranger
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Children of Sonamarg Kashmir “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.” – Eleanor Roosevelt – “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney – “Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.” – John Locke – Tweet news…
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Sea Gypsies | Life By The Seas | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Sea Gypsies | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus – These sea gypsies kids seems to be so happy playing around when I met them here in the island o Maiga, not very far away from Semporna Sabah. They are a little bit shy actually, I did try to get closer to them but the close I try to get to them, they try to move further and further away but still, I manage to get…
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Portrait Photography | Expression Beats Perfection
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | HaiQal and Raphael | My Little Big Boss “Epression beats perfection any day of the week, and if you have the most perfect photograph in the universe it’s a zero if you have no expression from your subjects.” – Bambi Cantrell – In term of photography composition, I’ve to admit that, I’m not satisfied with this picture. I wish, I really wish that I can go higher to photograph them both, so that I did not chop off their hands and legs. I know it will look much better if I get everything, I mean the whole body in the frame. But the fact is…