I am Awais Yaqub 23 years old MBA student and a citizen of Islamic Republic of Pakistan living in Islamabad. Photography was a hobby grown to passion.

I don’t have any training in photography. I learnt everything from watching photos printed and online and reading tutorials. Mostly I don’t enjoy reading.

It is passion of childhood. Expensive 35mm reel system kept me away from this great passion until in late 2004 I got my 1st point and shoot digital camera freedom of shooting pictures without worry of paying for printing and reels was just awesome. That was the point I started to transform my ideas into reality. At that times Pakistan was on headlines always portrayed as problematic country while situation was not same in most of the Pakistan. So my mission became to highlight the major overlooked part of the country that was beauty of culture and colorful happy life.

I have Sony DSC-H5, Canon EOS 400D with kit lens and Nifty Fifty Sandisk Extreme III 2 GB card. Whenever I got chance to upgrade it will be 70-200 IS 2.8 and 17-40L.

I love shooting landmarks situated in Pakistan like forts, Culture, documenting life and events and poverty. Landmarks because they are vanishing fast! And culture because most of the world always get to see negative side of beautiful culture enriched Pakistan. Poverty because I believe it is small contribution towards changing the world. Major focus is to build a great relationship between people through photography.

Like anyone else I am deeply inspired by guys at National Geographic. When I started to shoot photos fortunately I fell in right hands saw and read a lot from Andy Williams, Shay Stephens and many more.

From Heavens - Islamic Calligraphy on door of mosque in Bahwalpur

People who just visit email and ask me for adding more photos admiring effort keep me motivated my major focus are those people.

Mighty Rohtas - A view of Fort from where criminal people were hanged till death

My parents brothers and friends are just amazing when it comes to my pictures they are the 1st one who see photos when I am back home. They keep me motivated show great interest in the pictures. At early days they use to laugh but now they are very much concerned too!

My photography style has great influence of things happening around in the world.

I am with SmugMug for the past 2 years the most enjoyable feature are Customization ! capability of selling professional quality prints. Ease of use is totally amazing, keeps mind relaxed which is very important to take good photos. Geo tagging is other great feature which I use. Customer support is out of this world.

Presentation is very important to leave lasting impression on the audience they could be customers admirers or viewers that is only possible with great customization capabilities and smugmug has it all!!. I love to share my photos SmugMug is just best for that clean and elegant and huge bandwidth quota and now even full support of many video formats. And never out of space.

Don’t waste time start shooting and sharing beautiful memories with rest of the world, life is short make it everlasting. Always try to learn world cultures share your side to other side this will contribute towards peaceful world.