Category: Macro

A continuation of the Botanical Gardens series…

As I was busy composing my previous shot, Dad spotted this brightly coloured dragonfly perching on a water lily. A good thing about dragonflies — they tend to like posing still repeatedly on the same spot. I managed to squeeze off quite a number of pictures, refining the composition as I went along. This is one of those that I like (with the dragonfly pinsharp when I blow it up to 100% :)). I do have a portrait-orientated version of this with a different feel which I will post up within the next few posts.

This will be my last update for this week as I head up to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, tomorrow for my exams on Tuesday…

Another shot from the old archives, this particular one was taken at Sembawang Park in 2003 with my old G3. The sunlight was brilliant then, highlighting the leaves of this weed that was growing along the bark of a tree. I had a little help in preventing the loss of details in the bark: my dad was holding on to a reflector, which help to highlight the bark details nicely.

BTW, as requested by ashwin, my pictures will have accompanying EXIF information from now on 🙂 (I managed to hack together a script that works nicely on PS7 for this purpose after doing some ‘Googling’. If you are interested in getting it, do send me a contact!)

It has been become customary for my parents to shop for flowers to decorate the house for Chinese New Year… and for me to take pictures of them for posterity 🙂 This time round, we bought hyacinths. I came home from work on the first day of the New Year to find my dad sitting out in the yard taking pictures of these flowers. Joining him for a short while (before I took a much-needed nap), I took the above picture with the aid of a reflector and a piece of black card.