Category: Decisive Moment

Fleeting moments frozen in time

Got Milk, Too?

Got Milk, Too?
A companion to my first “lamb post”… 😛 I was lucky to catch yet another baby lamb looking for a drink of milk, this time at a closer distance, and with another baby lamb looking on too!

If you’ve followed my earlier rant about Adobe Lightroom’s handling of colours (take a look at Lightroom’s version of the above picture), here’s what I found on Adobe’s forums. Seems like the decision to switch back to Canon’s Digital Photo Professional (DPP) is the right one to take for now. Actually, DPP has improved with newer versions, kudos to Canon. The newest one I’m using (version 3.2) even include lens aberration correction for at least 2 out of the 3 most common lenses I use). Liking the results I got (having gotten used to and overcoming DPP’s poorer interface), I have replaced some of my recent NZ posts with DPP-rendered versions instead. So do take a look at these posts again if you found their colours lackluster recently. Hopefully, you might end up as pleasantly surprised as I am 🙂

A Stroll On Jack’s Bay

A Stroll On Jack's BayOne of my favourite shots from my trip to Western Australia in 2003 was a picture of a mother and child strolling by Busselton jetty. Little did I realize how similar in subject matter this particular shot at Jack’s Bay (along the Caitlin Coast of New Zealand) was until I started to post this blog entry. We were actually heading towards Jack’s Blowhole but took a wrong turn. Fortunately, the wrong turn led to a high vantage point which came in perfect for this picture! 🙂

Got Milk?

Got Milk?
What can a visit to New Zealand be without seeing sheep? According to one myth, New Zealand has 3 million people and 60 million sheep! Although this was true in the past, it was estimated that there were 40.1 million estimated resident sheep at 30 June 2006 (versus a human population of 4 million), giving a ratio of 10 sheep per person. I was lucky to catch this baby lamb looking for a drink of milk in a field along Milford Road.