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The Photojournalist | Behind The Scene | UMNO General Assembly 2012
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Photojournalist During UMNO General Assembly 2012 at PWTC | Kuala Lumpur Once I get back from Langtang Nepal, I don’t have much time to rest, in fact I was busy covering UMNO United Malays Organisation’s Annual Gathering in Kuala Lumpur from November 27 to 1st December 2012. Since the gathering will not be much of interest to most of you who visited my blog here, I just wanted to share with you, how photojournalist work during the assignment. Normally among the standard photography equipments for this type of assignment is to carry a hefty 300mm, 400mm, 500mm or even the 600mm lens to get…
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Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time at Swayambhunath Stupa | Kathmandu Valley | Nepal
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | Swayambhunath Stupa | Monkey Temple | Kathmandu Valley | Nepal The Swayambhunath Stupa is one of the crowning glories of Kathmandu Valley architecture. The entire structure of the stupa is symbolic, the white dome represents the earth, while the 13-tiered, beehive like structure at the top symbolises the 13 stages that humans must passthrough to achieve nirvana. The site has two access points: a long stairway, claimed to have 365 steps, leading directly to the main platform of the temple, which is from the top of the hill to the east; and a car road around the hill from the south leading…
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Travel | It’s Not The Destination, It’s The Journey That Matter
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | My Shadows on The Way to Langtang From Kyanjin Gompa | Langtang National Park | Nepal | Himalaya “Life is a Journey, Not a Destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson – The more I travel, the more I realise that, it is really not about the destination that matters the most but the journey itself. That’s why I choose to travel as a backpackers and not through any traveling agency, If I’m lost, let be, I like the hassle and I like the troubles doing my very own stuff and I almost fall off the cliff in the darkness on my way back to Potala Hotel…
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Adventure Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time in Himalaya | Langtang National Park | Nepal
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Photograph of Me by Ahmad Shukri | Somewhere in Langtang Valley | Nepal “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” – Ansel Adams – “I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.” – Harry Callahan – “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed, and is, thereby, a true manifestation of what one feels about life in its…
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Adventure Travel Photography | Explore | Dream | Discover | Langtang Valley Trek | Nepal
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Langtang Valley Trek | Nepal Himalaya | On The Way to Kyanjin Gompa Why? “‘Why do you do it?’ friends often ask, perplexed, Brows raised, minds sorely vexed. ‘The world out there is dangerous! Aren’t you scared? Why do this? You need steady work, a house, two cars! You have only a motorbike, and sleep under stars!’ Dear friend, if you must ask, you cannot know This curiosity that drives me so. To you it is hidden; in me rises unbidden! But one day the world I’ll have ridden By iron steed, then perhaps this need Will have vanished, finally vanquished! That day will find…
