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You Don’t Need To Travel The World To Be World Class Photographer
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Kashmir In Winter Yes, that’s true, you read that right. You really don’t need to travel the world to be a world class or international standard photographer. I’ve known many Malaysian photographers who make it big in international level by taking pictures here in Malaysia alone. They rarely travel outside Malaysia and some a lot of them also have won world class recognition by some of the most prestigious international media, whether it is coming from winning international photography competition or their works were admired by international community. So what makes some photographers achieve that standard? Well, it is difficult for me to answer that, since…
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Travel and Photography | Stop Capturing The Moment and Just Enjoy It
© 2015 Wazari Wazir | View From Trans-Siberian Railway Journey From The Train Window | Siberia “The sky is insane, in a fluster of fresh air, dazed with light. Images of intense beauty spring up, and vanish. Is that the apparition of a god? I’m incapable of talking the slightest photo, which would be a double offence: a sin of inattention and an insult to the moment.” – Sylvain Tesson – I think many of you here have watch “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty,” film. There was a scene where Walter Mitty asked a LIFE photographer named Sean O’Connell (Sean Penn) “When are you going to take it?,” Walter Mitty…
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Travel and Photography | Winter in Saint Petersburg
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Winter in Saint Petersburg | Russia “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck – I choose to travel to Russia in winter for a reason, I know that the best time to visit Russia or any four season country is during summer, that’s when most of the tourist flocking into the city and summer is consider as a high season in tourism industry, and that’s why most of the times you really can’t get cheap air travel ticket for traveling and in some places the hotel price will goes up because the demand is…
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Travel and Photography | The Photographer and The Mountain at Sarangkot | Pokhara Nepal
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | The Photographer and The Mountain at Sarangkot | Pokhara Nepal “The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I’m searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningful as possible.” – Galen Rowell – Sarangkot lies at the altitude of 1592 m above sea level, is the small hilltop which is famous for its breath taking view of sunrise and Annapurna range and Fishtail (Machapuchare). From here, you can see a panoramic sweep of Himalayan peaks, from Dhaulagiri (8167 m) in the west to the perfect pyramid that is Machhapuchhare (6997 m) and the rounded peak of Annapurna…
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Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time in Pokhara Nepal | A Cup of Coffee With a Mountain View
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Pokhara | Nepal Whether you wanted to believe or not, is totally up to you, but to be honest with you, those two person in the photograph above were not a “talent”, we do not hire them to pose for this picture. The man on the left is Mr Nadeem our guide for this trip while the women holding the aluminium kettle there is just doing her job. I don’t know maybe she is a someone wife or a worker at this place. This is a private area, I was told, (I don’t know how true is that) but we…
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