Category: Nature

I’m liking these backlit leaves! One from yet another visit to the Botanical Gardens earlier in the evening 🙂

From last weekend’s visit to the Botanic Gardens… my tripod’s “Quick Center Column” feature came in handy here. It wasn’t easy getting sufficient depth of field to make sure that the bees were sharp. I experimented with AI-Servo focus tracking on my 7D and it came in rather handy for some of these pictures.

I commented at the end of my recent Bali trip that it would probably be difficult to get nice pictures in a while when I get back to Singapore. Guess I was wrong 😛 A morning trip today to the Botanical Gardens yielded a number of interesting shots of which my favourite was the above shot of a back-lit leaf blade of lalang grass (or to use its scientific name, Imperata cylindrica). Although generally considered a weed by many, I am surprised by its many uses, which include being used in Papua New Guinea to thatch the roofs of traditional homes, as well as for its medicinal properties. Young shoots may even be eaten cooked!