• Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Mount Kinabalu | Explore, Dream, Discover

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise From Low’s Peak of Mount Kinabalu | Sabah “You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place ? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.” – Rene Dauma – “The pleasure of risk is in…

  • Adventure,  Travel

    Climbing Mount Kinabalu | My Photography Equipment

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Climbers at Mount Kinabalu | Sabah | 24 mm f/2.8 Actually I really have nothing much to write about but since you are here, I might share with you my camera equipment that I brought during my recent Mount Kinabalu trip. I don’t have any of “what’s in my bag” kind of a picture because nothing much to show really. Basically I carry all of my photography equipment to the summit of Mount Kinabalu. I took my Canon 5D Mark II, with 24 mm f/2.8 and 50 mm f/1.4 lens together with not so expensive, Fotopro Tripod with me. BUT, the only lens that I…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Travel

    Family Photography at Kuala Penyu | Sabah

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Family Outing at Kuala Penyu Beach | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo Sometimes it pays to keep it simple when photographing people. The background has nothing much to shout about, just an empty beach with no significant landmark about this place, so I try to concentrate on my subject, which is my family. The photograph of me with my children is taken by my wife. At first I did try to edit this photographs in colours but I just couldn’t get the mood that I want, so I decided to make it into black and white to keep it simple, to take out a distractions that came from the…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Bolehkah Anda Mendaki Gunung Kinabalu?

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mount Kinabalu Climber On Its Way to Laban Rata Saya tak boleh nak jawab sebenarnya pertanyaan tu tetapi itu adalah pertanyaan yang saya dapat melaui email. Ada seorang sahabat bertanya, saya tiada pengalaman mendaki gunung, boleh ke saya menjejakkan kaki ke puncak Gunung Kinabalu? Sebelum tu terdapat syarat ataupun panduan yang ditetapkan oleh pihak yang menguruskan Kinabalu Park iaitu Sutera Harbour. Antara lain ialah, “it is recommended” atau disyorkan bahawa semua pendaki perlu mandapatkan pemeriksaan perubatan sebelum mencuba apa-apa aktiviti mendaki gunung. Jika anda mempunyai sejarah menghidap penyakit berikut, elakkan dari mendaki: Tekanan darah tinggi, kencing manis, denyutan, Arthritis, Penyakit jantung, anemia teruk, ulser peptik, sawan…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Photography Tips | How To Photograph The Stars

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | The Stars at Mount Kinabalu | Photograph Taken at KM8.0 I’m not really into astrophotography but I would like to share with you on how I got this shot. The photograph above were taken at Mount Kinabalu in Sabah during my fourth climb. Since this is my fourth climb, I don’t really in a hurry to get to the Low’s Peak, the summit of Mount Kinabalu at an altitude of 4095.2 meters above sea level. I think I better find something else, something that I’ve never photograph before at Mount Kinabalu. So I decided to photograph the stars that can be seen from the top…