• Family,  Photoshop,  Portrait

    Family Photography | A Moment to Remember

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir| My Family | A Moment to Remember “If these picture have anything important to say to future generations, it’s this, I was here, existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture” – Robin Williams – Just forget about the color tones if it is not your cup of coffee but the most impotent thing is the moment, I don’t have this kind of a photographs  myself when I was a kid, I don’t have a photographs of me with my other siblings, our family does not have a camera back then, in those days…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Kashmir The Land of Mystery

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Kashmir | The Land of Mystery In my personal experience, Kashmir is truly The Land of Mystery, some people use to called Kashmir as Paradise on Earth. You can learn about Kashmir by reading magazines, books andy watching the news on your television but it will never be the same as being there by yourself. I spend seven days here in Kashmir and still can’t get enough of it, yes it is still a mysteries to me and to be honest with you Kashmir is beautiful, in fact the photograph will never be able to do justice to how beautiful Kashmir are. A lot of…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Travel Photography | The Traveler on Galata Bridge | Istanbul Turkey

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Traveler a.k.a The Photographer on Galata Bridge | Istanbul Turkey | On The Background is Yemeni Camii or New Mosque “A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” – Katharine Butler Hathaway – “The greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson – “Don’t say you don’t have enough time.…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Black and White

    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…

  • Adventure,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Istanbul | Travel Photography Tips | Don’t Forget To Take An Establishing Shots

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Eminonu | Istanbul Turkey Have you ever read any travel photography magazines lately? Have you look at their centre spread? Normally most travel; magazines, especially when the article focus on one particular city or country will use a centre spread to put an establishing shot, normally it will involved a wide angle view of certain places, main attraction of that particular place, to put context to the photograph and also a way to introduce the viewers  to the geographical location of a particular scene just like in the movie. This establishing shot does not look great in small size, because it is complicated, there is so…