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Travel and Photography | Photography Equipment | Have Camera Will Travel
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | Langtang National Park Nepal | Photograph of Me Taken by Ahmad Shukri People often ask me, what type of camera and lenses I carry when I travel, actually I’ve answer this question more than I can remember, I like to travel light and currently I just have one camera body with me which is Canon 5D Mark II and two sets of prime lens, 24mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.4. I’ve to say from my experience, prime lens is not user friendly lens when it come for travel photography, there is so much limitation, it is not practical. But then, I’m traveling just for the sake…
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Explore, Dream, Discover | Langtang National Park | Nepal
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | A Photograph of Me Taken by Ahmad Shukri, Enjoying The Magnificent View of 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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”. – Mark Twain – By now you should already know why we took more than eight to ten hours of trekking time to get from one point over another, when normally all it takes is four to five hours from one post to another. We stop a lot,…
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Nepal | Langtang National Park | Strangers No More
© 2012 Photograph of Me Taken by Ahmad Shukri | Langtang Valley National Park | Nepal “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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Travel Photography | The Magnificent AyaSofya, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Turkey
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | AyaSofya | Hagia Sophia | Istanbul | Turkey Hagia Sophia (/ˈhɑːɪə soʊˈfiːə/; from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία [aˈʝia soˈfia], “Holy Wisdom”; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened…
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Travel Photography | Eye On Kashmir
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Kashmir | Dal Lake Talking about Kashmir, actually to be honest with you, I really don’t know how to describe it and no matter how I try, no matter how hard I try to photograph Kashmir the best that I can do with my camera, I don’t think my photographs can do justice to its beauty. Yes Kashmir has it own problem, my country also has it’s own problem but then I can see beauty in Kashmir and I’m not here by accident, I choose to be here. I don’t believe what people say about Kashmir, I want to find…