Category Archives: Photolog

13 August 2
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Photolog: Kuala Lumpur Streets and Markets

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From a tin-mining shanty town in 1857 to a bustling modern metropolis of the 21st century, Kuala Lumpur is a cultural melting pot of around 1.8 million with a rich history and vibrant past. The city has seen a big transformation due to economic boom in the 90’s but retained its historical identity so you can see a blend of modern sophistication and traditional lifestyle side by side. Kuala Lumpur has some of Southeast Asia’s largest shopping malls and is considered a retails paradise for shoppers.

From skyscrapers to hawker stalls this city has everything for everyone.

This photolog feature is part of several where I’ll be covering various aspects of the day to day city life from streets to markets and beyond.

Asif R Naqvi, Culture, Geography, Klang Valley, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Melting pot, Metropolis, My Musings, Naqvi, Photography, Photolog, Southeast Asia, tin-mining shanty town

2 August 1
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Photolog: British Museum

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Asif Naqvi Photography British Museum 01

Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection

‘Photolog’ is a new series of posts with predominant focus on photographs rather than text. I’ll be posting a selection of images from my photographic endeavors that are mostly around travel, nature, landscape and urban photography.

Starting with one of the world’s greatest museums of human history and culture the British Museum London. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887… more

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Bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection

Asif Naqvi Photography British Museum 02

Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection

Asif Naqvi Photography British Museum 06

Roman Sculptures

Asif Naqvi Photography British Museum 04

Crouching Venus, Roman, circa 1st century AD

Asif Naqvi Photography British Museum 05

Crouching Venus, Roman, circa 1st century AD

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Parthenon marbles from the Acropolis of Athens – 447 BC

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Colossal statue of Ramesses II, the ‘Younger Memnon’ – 1250 BC

21 July 4
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An early winter afternoon in Virginia Water

Under - Art, Inspiration, My Musings, Nature, Photography, Photolog

An early winter afternoon photo shoot at Virginia Water Lake which lies within Windsor Great Park. The lake is mostly in Surrey county, though the western extremities are in the civil parishes of Old Windsor and Sunninghill and Ascot in Berkshire, England.

According to Wikipedia the shores of the lake have recently been used for lakeside scenes in the Harry Potter films. You can view the complete set at Flickr.

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7 July 3
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Fireworks at Datchet Cricket Club

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Every year in November a bonfire and fireworks spectacle takes place at Datchet Cricket Club, Datchet (Berkshire, England). Datchet is a small English Thameside village situated just outside Windsor.

Contrary to my Upton Court Fireworks photography, I went for a different approach to capture fireworks flares, flashes and explosions in this shoot which resulted in rather abstract and surreal light painting.

I took these pictures a while back but have not been able to share online before so here we go now.

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Art, Asif R Naqvi, Berkshire, Counties of England, Datchet, Datchet Cricket Club, Fireworks, Fireworks photography, Inspiration, M4 corridor, My Musings, Photography, United Kingdom, Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead, Work

1 April 6
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The Copper Horse, Windsor Great Park

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This impressive statue is located at the end of the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, England. The Long Walk runs around 3 miles (5km) from the Windsor Castle ending at Snow Hill where The Copper Horse statue is located. The spot provides an excellent view back to the Castle and surrounding areas. The park which served as a private hunting ground of Windsor Castle for many centuries is largely open to public now and an attraction for photographers like me.

Unlike my previous morning photography walk, this was late afternoon/early evening and the statue of George III appeared to be making some sort of statement in front of the setting sun.

The statue, commissioned by George IV, bears an ironic inscription: ‘the best of fathers’ in Latin. Like so many father-son relationships in the Hanoverian family, George III and George IV were known to have despised one another.