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Travel and Photography | Climbing Mount Kinabalu | Starting Point
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Kinabalu Park Office | You Need To Register Here We didn’t stay overnight here in Kundasang, we stay at Kota Kinabalu and head to Kundasang (Kinabalu Park) From Kota Kinabalu around 4 AM in the morning. We have some breakfast along the way at Pekan Nabalu. The journey from Kota Kinabalu to Kinabalu Park is approximately two hours. © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Registration at Kinabalu Park Once we reach Kinabalu Park Office, we need to register our name, pay for our insurance and mountain guide fee. You cannot climb the mountain without a mountain guide. It is mandatory, even though the trail to the…
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Photography Tips | Photoshop Editing Secrets
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Original Photograph | Unedited © 2013 Wazari Wazir | After Edited With Photoshop Master Of Colors Editing Technique | Kota Belud Paddy Field Most people, especially who have been following me through my photography probably by now, knew that I shoot my photograph in RAW format for most of the times. Why shoot in RAW, very simple, RAW file contain a lot of digital informations or data compared to JPG file. Currently I’m using Canon 5D Mark II full frame body. Normally if I shoot in JPG the file size will be around 5 to 7 MB but if I shoot in RAW format the…
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Travel Photography | Kota Belud Once Upon a Time in 2005
© 2005 Wazari Wazir | Kota Belud, Sabah Paddy Field | Nikon D70s With 18-70mm Lens “As a Child, The Paddy Field Was My Playground.” – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi – Actually the paddy field was also my playground during my early childhood but back then our family didn’t have a camera to freeze the moment, so I don’t have a photographs to prove it to you. Anyway this photographs were taken in September 2005, with my first DSLR which is Nikon D70s during my honeymoon with wife at Kota Belud, just a few month after our marriage. Kota Belud is the rice bowl of Sabah, the paddy field was quite…
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Family Photography Trips at Kota Belud Sabah
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Family Outing at Kota Belud Rice Field | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo I’ve always wanted to get a photograph of my family against a beautiful backdrop of paddy field, I like the rustic feeling of it. The closer that I can get it from Kuala Lumpur is heading to Sekinchan or Sungai Besar located at Selangor approximately two hours drive from Kuala Lumpur, but after five month, since my third child were born, we didn’t manage to get there. So when we are on a holiday in Sabah, visiting my mother-in-law, my friend, Azman Jumat suggested to us to visit Kota Belud and here we…
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Children Photography | Once Upon a Time in Cameron Highlands
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | My Children at Cameron Highlands Tea Plantation Nowadays I try as much as I can to take a photograph of my children with an environmental background, something that add context to the picture, something that have story to tell. When I’ve my first child HaiQal, we didn’t have any mean of transportation, I mean we don’t have a car, so it can be quite difficult for us to going somewhere using a public transportation, that’s why most of HaiQal pictures back then were taken around my house, normally just a close up portrait of my son alone or with his mother. To be honest with…