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Travel Photography | Sunrise at Mesilau Kundasang Sabah
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise at Mesilau | Kundasang Sabah | Mount Kinabalu Golf Club Mesilau derived its moniker from the small stream of yellow waterfall which the locals there claimed to have been originally yellow in colour (silou is Dusun for yellow). Located 2, 000 meters east of Kinabalu Park; it is home to amazing nature growing pitcher plants such as Nephenthes rajah. Mesilau Nature Park is situated just further up from Kundasang Dairy Farm and Kinabalu Golf Resort. Mesilau is situated some 100 kilometers from Kota Kinabalu by road or about approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes driving. Mesilau is practically the highest point accessible to automobiles; it…
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Portrait | Black and White Photography
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | My Son Playing With Puddle | Langkawi Kedah Some of you might not call this a black and white photograph but just a greyscale photograph. It doesn’t have that kind of deep solid black, just a shade of grey, you are right, this is not super deep rich black and white but that is not my point of this article. I know how to get a deep rich black and white but for this image I prefer it to be like this, a lighter version of black and white. I get a lot of emails asking me, how to know whether some picture will look…
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Action Photography | Sense of Movement
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Joy of Childhood | KLCC Park | ISO 100 | 1/20 | F 18 | Lens 10-20mm First of all I would like to let you know that this is not a Photoshop effect or tricks even though I know how to do it in Photoshop but this action shot, with a sense of movement and blurred background is done right in the camera. I’ve to try many times to get this shot right, I mean to get my son face in focus, not too blurred, you cannot get super sharp image while panning but the point is to get the face of the subject…
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Environmental Portrait | Family Day Outing at Kuala Lumpur City Centre
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | My Family | Kuala Lumpur City Centre KLCC My wife was struggling to hold my son because he wanted to free, running here and there. It was clear blue sky here in Kuala Lumpur on Federal Day Territory day, a public holiday for Kuala Lumpur resident and also for Putrajaya and Labuan Island. This is a safe place for my son to run here and there and the water on that pond behind is not so deep, my son will not get drown by it, maybe get wet a little if he falls down but I just wanted to take a picture of them together,…
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Kuala Lumpur | Federal Territory Day | Hari Wilayah Persekutuan
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Kuala Lumpur City Center | Federal Territory Day Federal Territory Day, or Hari Wilayah Persekutuan as it is known in Malay, falls on 1st February and celebrates the anniversary of the formation of the Federal Territory in 1974. This day is declared a holiday in the Federal Territory, where visitors will see the streets transformed by parades and fireworks, with various cultural activities and fascinating exhibitions happening in a whole host of different locations. This year the celebration was held at Dataran Merdeka on 29th January 2011. Today, the Federal Territory comprises three cities: Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya. Labuan is an island off the…