Ada apa dalam beg

Taman Lalang

Kita bernafas di bawah langit yang sama.

wedding portraiture (b&w)

kids at the wedding

tea.coffee.books

Hijabista Food

Tajuk tak boleh blah ni dah kenapa? HAHA

Ok, sebenarnya banyak je event created and hosted by people who love fashion yet wanna keep being modest and being shariah compliant. For musleemah (ejaan saja gedik) in Malaysia (and ive seen in some other parts of the world ie Indonesia) they call themselves as Hijabsters, a modern looking Hijabis who into fashion (agaknya laa).

Kebanyakan depa ni gemar mengenakan pakaian yang terang, yang flowing dan cun, ada yang memadankan dengan bergaya sekali (aku nak cakap mix and match sebenarnya dah kona jauh) dan tudung (or maybe not a normal tudung like i do because im malas liddat. depa mestilah pakai shawl) yang punyai pattern and such.

Ok. We are not bloggers who blog about fashion. Maaf.

These pictures are some of the examples of what usually hijabsters gathering have in their events.

Toothsome!

Masjid

It was supposed an entry for Jumuah. Konon-konon nak buat shariah compliance entry tapi i was too bz dari  pagi bawak ke malam. Dah lah tu bagi tajuk Masjid tapi stuck tak jumpa kat mana gambar masjid until i need to recycle gambar lama posted and uploaded dekat Flickr.

Oh we do have our own flickr accounts. Here
Mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/taroathirah/
Fadh's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fadhilah/

Tamak. Kami lah tu. Bukan takat flickr, 500px ada insta pun ada.

Happy Sabtuday everyone!

Purple Power

Earth laughs in flowers.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

Mata berkaca

Budak budak memang suka menangis. Mereka mahu kita Listen Listen Listen mereka. 
Budak budak memang suka perhatian. Tak dapat apa yang dimahukan, menangis. Kadang mata berkaca dahi berkerut tanda mohon simpati.

Mereka sangat adorable. Tiba masa mengamuk, taklah adorable sangat. hehe

The tiny creatures

Seeing the world... in depth.

Travel I

Situasi yang jarang kita nampak

India, aku yakin orang akan terfikirkan bangunan penuh simbolik cinta antara Shah Jahan dan surihatinya, Mumtaz Mahal. Bangunan serba cantik lagi indah yang dilengkapi sebuah masjid di kirinya dan Guest House di kanannya. Tapi pernah tak anda lihat situasi di Delhi?

Di Old Delhi misalannya, ramai penghuni miskin tegar yang membina rumah-rumah haram di tepi jalan raya sebagai tempat berlindung. Di situlah sebuah keluarga kecil menghuni dan disitu jugaklah sebuah komuniti kecil wujud menghimpunkan beberapa buah keluarga lain. Kotor, jijik dan busuk adalah perkataan yang melintas di minda. Kemudian, hadir pula perkataan kasihan tanda belas ihsan pada manusia lainnya. Mungkin juga perut mereka sudah lali dan neutral dengan habuk dan bakteria?

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I was looking at my old blog post this morning that I suddenly realized something. I had never really blog about my trips and share my experience. All I did was post photos with caption.  Some captions weren’t descriptive enough that after certain time, I couldn’t recall what actually taken place in my photos. And there was another thing. Before I started photography seriously, I write and blog a lot. I covered various topics on my blog. I don’t put the blame to my hobby (i.e. photography) though, but I see trend here. That I get lazier. I write less and lesser everyday.

Laziness aside, I’m going to write a short note about my trip to India in 2008. There, I visited three cities and some famous places/landmarks like Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, India Gate, and several dry and wet markets that I couldn’t recall their name (because I have to look into my notebook first and I couldn’t find it right now. Yeah I don’t have 5S for my stuff).  I was very excited and overjoyed at that time.  Was very happy to witness one of the Seven Wonders of the World that I took photos like a frantic person; never wait for a right moment nor aim for better composition. None whatsoever.

Frankly speaking, it wasn’t really the joy of witnessing the Wonders of the World that moved me. It was the unexplainable experience that I get when I was there, when I was travelling across the cities on a rented car, the things and local people that I saw along the journey that moved me. Of course, the Taj Mahal is magnificent and there is no doubt about it. But there are many valuable experiences yet to be found when you travel abroad than just spotting beautiful buildings/places and enthusiastically shoot photos.

Whenever we travel to the new places, if we have ample time, slow down. Look around. Shoot photos/record videos but not all the time. Interact with the locals. Understand their culture. Read history to appreciate things. Try local food (if it doesn’t cause you diarrhea afterwards).  Write down some notes (so you don’t forget or mix up things later on when you come back esp. when you are on business trip and want to do claims). This is how you turn your average holiday trip to something extraordinary.

blue

Still life - blue

Insta Series: Light On

Duduk diam dalam gelap

Tak nampak

Kelam dan malap

Meraba dalam likatnya hitam

Maka

Carilah cahaya itu

Yang paksinya pada Nur Tuhan

Agar tidak sesat. Tidak lagi terpisat-pisat

taroAthirah . Januari 9, 2013 

Nature

We went to Ipoh on 29th of December 2012 by ETS. A crazy journey i must say when we hadn't bought the tix prior!

Return ETS tix from KL Sentral to Ipoh costs RM70. Was a scorching day indeed. But it was a fun trip!


Pix by Fadhilah_H

Pix by TaroAthirah

Note:  we have quite similar compo! Janji tak rancang cop

1, 2, 3 and go!

It has been awhile before we decided to continue to blog again. I just cant remember when was the last time i write.

Bermula sebagai seorang stranger yang hanya mengikuti flickr Fadhilah_H, until we met in KLCC for the first time, we then got to know each other. A few outings and being gila-gila in FB and twitter, tup tup dah setahun lebih juga!

Fadhilah_H, an IIUM graduate and she studied pharmacy and I, better known Taroathirah was also from IIUM but graduated in IT. Different fields, different IIUM versions but with one hobby, photography!

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