Mantis Macro

This was taken a long time ago. Insect brutality: Sugar spray, Stun flash lights, Imprisonment in a container, Antique macro lens 200mm f4

Feeling like taking close up shot!

So tiny. Hard to capture it on camera. 

Macro

65mm macro on wanderer. Thin depth of field.

Longhorn Beetle

A little flash stun gun does help.

Fitzroy artefact

Spotted an interesting view

Spider

Macro on the spider. 

Huh

Looks kind of stupid and silly.

One leg up

Looks like a dog raising the hind leg to pee?

Taken by Voigtlander 125mm f2.5

Moth

The bokeh and colour are very rich in deed.

Emerald Eye of Snake

The window to the soul.

Formosan butterfly

Sometimes nature does bring wonder.

Tranquility

Sometimes, dont we wish to be like the water motion. Ripples come and go returning to tranquility. It is as it is.

Grasshopper by A 300mm f2.8

Spider macro

Moth Macro by Pentax A 200mm f4 macro

Spotted this the wall. Thanks to stun gun to flash this baby delirious. 

Foreground bokeh

The weather has been rather bad. This image was really just a messing around with foreground bokeh. Why?

Pentax lenses are usually better in the foreground bokeh department than background one...

Spider Macro

This image is taken by Voigtlander 125mm f2.5 macro APO Lanthar

Life is busy at the moment. Good to be occupied in fact.  This photo was taken a while back when I still had that obsession with insects in general. Sometimes it is amazing to see the extent I really want to get this sort of image spending hours of tracking and snapping to get this desirable outcome. You might not be aware that this macro lens is legendary. Yet, I have sold it to a Melbourne enthusiastist. This lens has absolute no fringeing and smoothest bokeh among all macro lenses. The colour rendition is clean and clear. Very mesmerising lens in deed.

Street photography is still my thing. Yet, it is so hard to pick this up after 3 years of non shooting. Somehow I am confident that I will pick it with the help of friends :)

The top name for boy baby is Jack and girl baby is Ruby last year.

Another McDonald is robbed in Melbourne. This is very spooky.

Spring of Christmas Macro

This image is taken by A 200mm f4 Macro

4 seasons in one day. Melbourne is having a tantrum like a lady in menopause. With all friends leaving for festive season holidays (None of us really celebrate christmas), I managed to do 2 overseas shifts as well as reading a novel that I have made up my mind not finishing it. LOL.

Again, I think a photograph from the dying plant in my backyard would suffice for my blog. At least this is something!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Macro of a bug

This image is taken by Pentax A 200mm f4 macro

Guess where this shot was taken?

Yes, on the wall of my filthy room. The amazing thing about this bug was that it did not even bother to move while I wag the big camera all over it. I guess I did not have to spray Mortein all over it.

However, I did use 2 flash guns to stun it pretty well. It was captured head on on my camera creating that good impact I liked.

This is less than 5 mm in length and I could not name what this insect was. Thanks to a dull and uneventful Thursday - this shot really made my day. Soon I would say good bye to Pentax system pretty much. Still some gears did make me a little uneasy to let go.

Merry Christmas Everyone :)

p.s. I just read from News Week magazine that 17% of Americans who are unemployed, are no longer looking for work or even looking for part time based jobs.

Quote of the day


Serious sport, according to George Orwell, is a war minus the shootings.