• Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Pokhara Nepal | Postcard From Himalaya

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Phewa Lake | Pokhara Nepal “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white…

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    Portrait Photography Tips | To Bokeh or Not?

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter | 50mm | ISO 160 | f/2 | 1/500 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son at Cameron Highlands | 24mm | ISO 200 | f/5 | 1/160 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sarangkot Pokhara | Nepal | 50mm | ISO 100 | f/11 | 1/160 Someone asked me, whether he need to “bokeh” his background or not when taking a portrait. Before that, to those of you who have no idea what is “Bokeh” comes from the Japanese word “boke” which means “blur” or “haze”. Generally speaking it is in out of focus area of an image which normally refer…

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    Travel and Photography | Life is An Adventure

    © 2013 A Photograph of Me Overlooking Annapurna Range From Sarangkot by Ahmad Shukri  “Indeed, Allah Will Not Change The Condition of a People Until They Change What is in Themselves.”  – Ar-Ra’d : 11 –  “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”  – Diane Ackerman –  “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.”…

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    Travel Photography Tips | Don’t Forget To Add Foreground Interest

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir |  Lake | Pokhara Nepal Landscape photographers knows this very well, it is a secret ingredients for a successful landscape photography but you can also use foreground interest for any kind of photographic genre. Your foreground subject can be your main subject or just as a compliments for the entire photograph, I mean you don’t really need to add a foreground interest but by adding the foreground interest, it will make it more complete. For the photograph above, the main subject is not those two boats, but the Himalayan Mountain behind, or to be exact the Annapurna Range, the photograph were taken at Phewa Lake in…

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    Travel Photography | From Kathmandu to Syabrubesi

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | At 6:30 a.m, Getting Ready for The Adventure | Thamel | Kathmandu | Nepal © 2012 Wazari Wazir | A Quick Stop at Dhunche | Langtang National Park © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Taking a Break at Hanging Bridge | Nepal © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Bus Arrived at Syabrubesi | Langtang National Park | Himalaya At 6 a.m on November 12 the phone rings, someone called and said that, the car is ready, he is actually our driver that will take us to Syabrubesi. Actually the night befire I’ve made an arrangement with Annapurna Guest House Manager, Mr. Manjit Tapa that we need a…