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Travel iPhoneography | Kashmir in Winter 2012
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Kashmir in Winter | February 2012 “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” – Andrew Wyeth – “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” – Lewis Carrol – “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.…
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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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Travel Photography | Friday Prayer at Hazratbal Mosque | Srinagar Kashmir
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Kashmiri Man and Women Perform Friday Prayer at Hazratbal Mosque | Srinagar Kashmir | 3rd February 2012 It is indeed a rare experience for me to perform Friday Prayer here in Hazratbal Mosque, Srinagar Kashmir. The Hazratbal mosque is situated in Srinagar only 8 Kms from Lal Chowk, on the western banks of the picturesque Dal Lake. Facing the beautiful Nishat Bagh, the mosque offers a spectacular view of the lake and the mountain afar. The building which is known as shrine today was actually built as a pleasure house by Sadiq Khan, subedar of Shah Jahan in 1623. When Shah Jahan came to…
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Travel Photography | India | New Delhi | Kashmir | Agra | Part V
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Floating Vegetable Market | Dal Lake | Srinagar Kashmir Next morning on 3rd February, we decided to visit floating vegetable market at Dal Lake, actually we had already arrange with Mr Ashraf to pick up us at the shikara station around 6AM, but the night after Ashraf send us back, we had a little discussion with Mr Rauf, Swiss Hotel Manager, he told us not to go too early, it is not safe and furthermore it was very cold in the early morning and we follow his advise, so we only met Mr Ashraf around 7:30Am, it was bright already and he told us that…
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Travel Photography | India | New Delhi | Kashmir | Agra | Part IV
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | With Shikarawallah | Mr Ashraf | Dal Lake | Srinagar Kashmir © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | Dal Lake | Srinagar Kashmir Once we put our backpacks in the room, we went outside, even though we are a little bit tired after long journey from New Delhi, we are eager to explore this area especially the famous Dal Lake and further more we are hungry and need some foods. So we decided to take a walk outside of the hotel towards the boulevard, actually there is a small shop just outside the hotel selling light snack, mineral water and something alike but there were…
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