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Travel Photography | Boudhanath Stupa | Kathmandu Valley | Nepal
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Boudhanath Stupa | Kathmandu | Nepal Boudhanath (Devnagari: बौद्धनाथ) (also called Boudha, Bouddhanath or Baudhanath or the Khāsa Caitya) is one of the holiest Buddhist sites in Kathmandu (Yambu), Nepal. It is known as Khāsti in Nepal Bhasa Jyarung Khasyor in Tamang language or as Bauddha by modern speakers of Nepali. Located about 11 km (6.8 mi) from the center and northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu, the stupa’s massive mandala makes it one of the largest spherical stupas in Nepal. The Buddhist stupa of Boudhanath dominates the skyline. The ancient Stupa is one of the largest in the world. The influx of large populations of refugees…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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