Happy 10th Birthday Isabel Neo (7 Dec 2014)

She wanted a party on her 10th birthday so she can have some friends come over to celebrate with her.

So we organized a party on 7 Dec 2014, just over a week before her actual birthday [17 Dec ], at home for her friends to attend.

Waiting for her friends to arrive

What have you been doing for the December holidays?

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Potluck High Tea at BRV with old friends 9 Feb 2014

We had a few good friends over for a pot luck high tea and it was a good chance for all the children to meet and have fun too!

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Jumping Spider Lazing on Curry Leaf Plant 25 April 2012

As an avid insect macro photographer, I also try my best to be a botanist at home.

I have accumulated more than 10 potted plants outside my house, along the common corridor and it proved to be quite useful when trying to look for insect subjects to shoot without having to travel into any forest.

Before I left the house for dinner last night, I was watering the plants. I noticed a relatively big jumping spider hopping away as it sensed the drizzle from my watering can onto the curry leaf plant that it was perching on. I was hoping that when I return after dinner, it would still be there.

When I did reach home, it was waiting for me on one of the outermost leaf of the curry leaf plant.

Without much delay, I set up my flash brackets and gave it several portraiture shots.

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Studio Shoot for Jumping Spider outside House

Found this 8 legged critter sniffing up my curry plant outside my flat.

Wasted no time in getting a blue styrofoam as background and setting up my flash diffuser.

It was also great time to test my newly purchased Kenko 2x Teleconverter for Canon DSLR bodies.

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Bedok Reservoir View Canal 2 Sept 2010

Reached home early and thought of trying out my Raynox DCR-250 with the Sigma APO 70-300mm.

The magnification was superb but sadly, the depth of field was so shallow that anything 1-2mm beyond the focal point was blurred out


A location picture

Some bokeh shots taken by the Sigma 70-300 without the raynox attached

Pollen is the cocaine for butterflies and bees!

Is it me or is that flower growing a pair of yellow lips?

A moth or a butterfly? Either way, it was perching still, totally oblivious to my lens which was less than 3cm away. Noticed the yellow pollen stuck to its body ?

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