• Art,  Assignment,  Travel

    Travel Photography | A Blanket of Mist | Bario Sarawak

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Blanket of Mist at Bario Sarawak “And I walked for hours, imagining the mist growing thick and swallowing me whole. The thought of disappearing like that, so simply, made me so happy.”  – Jay Asher –  This photograph is a grabbed shot, or should I say just a snapshot, I really did not plan it, if I know that someone will cycle through this paddy field, I will definitely change my lens from 24-70 mm to 70-200 mm to get a little bit tight, but then I think this wide shot works well with the environment. Some people said that, the best photographs always…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Family,  Travel

    Photography Tips | How To Handle Low Light Conditions Without Using Flash

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | My Family During Langkawi Island Trip | ISO 1600 – ISO 2000 | Shutter 1/80 – 1/200 Photographers always facing this kind of things, sometimes they just don’t have any other options like, not having a flash, like me. Sometimes using flash is prohibited in certain places and sometimes, yes you can flash but in doing so, will spoil the mood in certain places. In my case I don’t want to use flash and prefer to use whatever light available there. The easiest way to handle low light condition without using flash is to bump up the ISO in your camera. For the photographs above…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Travel Tips | Finding The Perfect Travel Companion

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | People Hanging Out at Patan Durbar Square | Nepal “And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they’re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we’d be in absolute…

  • Family,  Travel

    Family Photography Outing | Black Sand Beach Langkawi

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Family Trip at Langkawi Black Sand Beach Jetty “Photographs are footprints of our minds, mirrors of our lives, reflections from our hearts, frozen memories that we can hold in silent stillness in our hands – forever if we wish. They document not only where we have been, but also point the way to where we might perhaps be heading, whether or not we realize this yet ourselves.”   – Judy Weiser, R.Psych – Actually the main attraction here for most tourist is not this wooden log jetty but the black sand beach located on the left side of this picture. Actually it is not totally black…

  • Assignment,  Photojournalism,  Reportage Photography,  Travel

    Malaysia King’s Birthday Celebration | Trooping the Colour Ceremony

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Trooping The Colour Ceremony Yang di- Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Haminah on Friday June 13, 2014, attended the trooping of the colours at Sungai Besi army camp here. The event, paying of homage and expression of loyalty by the armed forces to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, was held in conjunction with the birthday of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. The King, accompanied by Armed Forces chief Jen Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zin, inspected a guard-of-honour mounted by 22 officers and 560 personnel led by Royal Malay Regiment First Battalion commander Lt-Kol Megat Ahmad Najib Megat Yunus. Tweet news…