• Adventure,  Travel

    You Don’t Need To Travel The World To Be World Class Photographer

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Kashmir In Winter Yes, that’s true, you read that right. You really don’t need to travel the world to be a world class or international standard photographer. I’ve known many Malaysian photographers who make it big in international level by taking pictures here in Malaysia alone. They rarely travel outside Malaysia and some a lot of them also have won world class recognition by some of the most prestigious international media, whether it is coming from winning international photography competition or their works were admired by international community. So what makes some photographers achieve that standard? Well, it is difficult for me to answer that, since…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Travel and Photography | Stop Capturing The Moment and Just Enjoy It

    © 2015 Wazari Wazir | View From Trans-Siberian Railway Journey From The Train Window | Siberia “The sky is insane, in a fluster of fresh air, dazed with light. Images of intense beauty spring up, and vanish. Is that the apparition of a god? I’m incapable of talking the slightest photo, which would be a double offence: a sin of inattention and an insult to the moment.” – Sylvain Tesson – I think many of you here have watch  “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty,” film. There was a scene where  Walter Mitty asked a LIFE photographer named Sean O’Connell (Sean Penn) “When are you going to take it?,” Walter Mitty…

  • Adventure,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Travel and Photography | Winter in Saint Petersburg

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Winter in Saint Petersburg | Russia “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck – I choose to travel to Russia in winter for a reason, I know that the best time to visit Russia or any four season country is during summer, that’s when most of the tourist flocking into the city and summer is consider as a high season in tourism industry, and that’s why most of the times you really can’t get cheap air travel ticket for traveling and in some places the hotel price will goes up because the demand is…

  • Adventure,  Travel

    Pengalaman Merentasi Siberia Dengan Keretapi | Trans-Siberian Railway

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Train K04 (Trans-Mongolian) Leaving Irkutsk Station To Beijing © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Trans-Siberian Railway Journey “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”  – Ernest Hemingway – “Cermin, Ya. Tak salah jika orang bilang hidup itu adalah sebilah cermin. Dunia di matamu sesungguhnya adalah cerminan dari hatimu sendiri. Caramu memandang dunia adalah caramu memandang diri. Jika dunia penuh kebencian dan musuh ada di mana-mana, sesungguhnya itu adalah produk dari hatimu yang dibalut kebencian.” – Agustinus Wibowo – Apa yang kita cari dalam hidup berbeza-beza dengan orang lain, minat kita juga berbeza-beza. Amat…

  • Adventure,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Travel | Planning For Trans-Siberian Railway Adventure

    Trans-Siberian Railway journey is undoubtedly is among the most epic journey one can make, it is the longest railway network in the world. The journey from Moscow to Vladivostok is 9289 KM  in seven days and if you take the train from Moscow to Beijing via Trans-Mongolian it will take six days for 7865 Km distance. The question here, is, is it for you? To be honest this route is not for everyone, not many people can feel comfortable spending few days on the train, yes off-course you can spend few night here and there along the Trans-Siberian Railway but still it took long hours to reach your destination. Russia…