• Expression,  Family,  Life,  Moment

    Children Photography | A Child’s Play | A Moment to Remember

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Raphael Playing With iPad | 24mm | f/2.8 | ISO 2000 | 1/125 “Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” Kay Redfield Jamison (professor of psychiatry) “The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.”  – Plato – “Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.” – Nietzsche –  (philosopher, writer) Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

  • Adventure,  Art,  Life,  Moment,  People,  Portrait,  Travel

    Sea Gypsies | Life By The Seas | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Sea Gypsies | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus – These sea gypsies kids seems to be so happy playing around when I met them here in the island o Maiga, not very far away from Semporna Sabah. They are a little bit shy actually, I did try to get closer to them but the close I try to get to them, they try to move further and further away but still, I manage to get…

  • Assignment,  Culture,  Malaysia,  People,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Photojournalism | Choosing The Best Point of View

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | An elephant leads the procession of the arrival of Malaysia’s outgoing king Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin and queen Nur Zahirah (unseen) before departing for their home state of Terengganu, at an airport in Sepang outside Kuala Lumpur on December 12, 2011. Sultan Mizan, Malaysia’s 13 king, proclaimed in 2006, completed his reign on Monday (Dec 12, 2011) after a five-year rotation period. Sultan Mizan is the sultan for the northeastern state of Terengganu. What is point of view? Basically it is the position, direction, heigh of the camera that will define the point of view of a picture. If you asked me what is the…

  • Art,  Life,  Malaysia,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Once Upon a Time in Semporna Sabah | Life By The Sea

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Semporna | Life By The Sea Depending to whom you ask for, Semporna is a gateway to paradise, gateway to beautiful island of Sabah especially to Sipadan Island which is considered among the top dive site in the world, but there is more in Semporna than Sipadan Island, there is Mataking, Kapalai and Mabul, just to name a few that are famous with divers. Since this is a photography blog, most photographers that I’ve known come to Semporna for a different reason, unless they are underwater photographers. Most of the photographers that I’ve known like to come here to visit the life of Sea Gypsies…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Life,  Travel

    Sea Gypsies | Life By The Sea | Content With Life

          “Happiness Consists Not in Having Much, But in Being Content With Little.” – Marguerite Gardiner – I think the way I presented my picture will have an affect on the mood that the picture will convey. I guess if I choose to share this picture in colors, it will convey much more happy mood than what you are seeing here, but this is how I view the life around here, living the simple life, maybe by choice or maybe they don’t have any other choice or maybe they do have a choice but prefer to continue living like this. (I need to spent more times with them…