Xik photography

"May your heart be filled with love, your mind with peace, and your days with joy in the coming year."

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
– Aaron Siskind

Dear All (My Friends, relatives, colleagues, and fellows): I am pleased to inform you that my marriage is scheduled for 24th October to 26th October 2022 at Janabad Passu.
I cordially invite you and your family to my wedding ceremony and give us your blessings and celebrate it with us. I would be extremely happy with your presence. My family is looking forward to receiving you here in Passu.
Thanking you.
Qurban Azeem

“A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.”– Terri Guillemets

Cathedral Range, Passu

For such a spectacular scene, it’s remarkably unknown. Pakistanis talk about “The Northern Areas” while foreigners seem rather hung up on the Hunza Valley, however for me, neither of those compare to the fairytale magic of Passu.
The Cathedral Range, also known as the “Passu Cones” are one of the most striking landmarks on the Karakoram Highway. The jagged rocky peaks thrust skywards from the rest of the Karakoram Range are an arresting sight.They first come into view from across the upper reaches of the Attabad Lake near Gulmit.The locals call it Tupopdan, the “sun swallowing mountains”, and as the day’s last rays shimmer off the golden-bronze rock, it’s easy to see why. “Tupopdan” is also sometimes translated as “hot rocks”, so called because of the way the snow and ice seems to slip off (or melt away from) the sheer cliff walls.The Karakoram Highway snakes its way through Passu, past the handful of shops and hotels, before finally descending on to the valley floor. It turns a corner and ahead, amid the tall green trees, is the view to remember for a lifetime; the Cathedral Range, the most photographed part of the Karakoram Range, and yet the one that hardly anyone knows about.

“The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus – this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.”
– Jacques-Henri Lartigue

A beautiful evening spent yesterday at the scenic Passu cones and Batura Lake.
The opening ceremony of the Batura Resort Passu has been newly built by by group of young and energetic professionals. Where you can now enjoy tasty food by chef Fayyaz Ahmmed Passvic chef Sharaz Alvi and Kamran Iqbal with imposing view of the lake and Passu cones more closely.
Other beautiful initiative is just about to be added within few days. Rainbow Adventure Bridge initiative of Shah Wali and Ali Madad Passu Hunza. Addition of other touristic spot and attraction. Stay tuned it will be soon operational.
Such initiatives will be contributing alot in the development of the Tourism Industry.

Photography by Xik Qurbonov Azeem Azeemi