• Adventure,  Travel

    Travel Photography Tips | Give Your Photograph a Sense of Place

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Trekkers at Langtang National Park | Nepal | Himalaya “Most travel photographers make pictures to convey the appearance of a place. I try to make them to convey a “Sense of Place.”  What exactly is a “Sense of Place?” To me, a “sense of place” means not just what a place actually “looks like,” but rather, how it feels, what it represents or once represented, and what it might mean to us. Making images that capture a “Sense of Place” usually involves expressing symbolic ideas central to the meaning of the place, instead of just descriptively recording its appearance. “ “No single image can usually…

  • Photojournalism,  Reportage Photography

    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…

  • Adventure,  Life,  Travel

    The Travel Photographer | Once Upon a Time in Bamboo | Langtang National Park

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sunset at Bamboo | Langtang National Park | Nepal Himalaya © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Group Photograph With Sherpa Hotel Family | Bamboo | Langtang Valley National Park | Nepal “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”  – Anthony Bourdain – I’ve mention previously that we spend the one night here in Sherpa Hotel Bamboo, there are…

  • Adventure,  Life,  Travel

    The Travel Photographer | Once Upon a Time in Langtang Valley | Nepal

    © 2012 Ahmad Shukri | Photograph of Me at Langtang Valley | Langtang National Park | Nepal “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain – I travel a lot and as a photographer, even though I took thousand of photos from my trip, very few of them have “my picture”, most of the times, it is about other people pictures, a stranger that I met along the way or just simple a…

  • Adventure,  Life,  Travel

    Traveling | A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Step

    © 2012 Ahmad Shukri | A Photograph of Me (The Author) Trekking The Langtang Valley Trek Towards Kyanjin Gompa | Langtang | Nepal With beauty before me, may I walk  With beauty behind me, may I walk  With beauty above me, may I walk With beauty below me, may I walk With beauty all around me, may I walk Wandering on the trail of beauty, may I walk  – Navajo – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel