Thursday, October 19, 2006

Revisiting Nature (in the frontyard)



Wanted to just pay tribute to my parents efforts at maintaining the garden mostly without my help. Did a lot of work on the garden at inception but just could not find the time nor the inclination of late. I must say though that through their care the garden has really matured well. Seen here are my best shots using my new .....err...companion. Above is a bougainvillea and below is the red ginger.

P/S: The 50mm lens does a nice 'bokeh' for the shot on top. FYI, bokeh (from the japanese word boke reffering to 'blur' is a term used in photography to describe, how shall we say, the subjective aesthetic qualities of out-of-focus areas in an image or in short foreground and background blur. How well its coined...


Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Tiger shooting

Went on this project of shooting tigres with fellow owners of DSLR now that I have obtained the 400D (ok ok.. its a bit of a deviation from the original plan of a 350D). It was quite hazy the day we went shooting at ZOO Negara but we went on ahead without heed.
A note though that I had to borrow a friend's 28-135mm lens as my kit lens did not have the focal range that was needed. So thanks James. Much appreciated.



Click on any of the pictures to be taken to the Zoo Negara photoset.