Of Macro Photography; the Fish Pond...

From time to time I would venture into Macro Photography. With the Micro Lens attached to the Nikon DSLR I would try to take the best image at close range. Through the Micro Lens one get to see more of an image of the object. It actually tells us of another world from what we normally see with our naked eyes. It is not easy to get a good image for one need a firm and steady hand to capture such image using a Micro Lens. Any shaking would completely destroy the image and it became useless. So in order to get a good image using the Micro Lens I would snap as many images of the same object and select a few for keeping. By doing that I would normally get a good image. About is an image of the Fish Pond that I snap recently. Enjoy it folks. [ Please click on  the image to enlarge]

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Sunrise over Kuantan...

Whenever I go back to Kuantan, my hometown I would always take the time to get to the Teluk Cempedak beach nearby in the early morning; to watch the sunrise. I love this beach where I often go camping during my childhood, growing up in Kuantan. Together with friends from the 1st Scout Group we would go camping at the beach on the weekend. It was really an enjoyable time of my life. We would wake up early and watch the sunrise. When I was there on my visit last year I took the above image and sharing it here for everyone to enjoy that majestic scene. 

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Through the Micro Lens...

Above are some images of as seen through the Micro Lens. Top is an Ant that we call Kerenga and it sting is painful. It helps to pollinate some fruit trees. Below it is a tiny caterpillar that soon would be transformed into a beautiful butterfly. Next is moss on the bark of a tree seen in the park on one of  my visits there? All these are part of our ecosystem. It does colour our world.  

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Of the Bee and the Flower...

It was early morning. As usual at that early hour I was doing the daily chore in front of the house. Suddenly my spouse calls and said that a Bee got stuck at one of the flower that she had nurtured at the garden in the backyard. The Malay name this tiny flower of a creeper plant as Bunga Tongkeng [Tonkin Jasmine]. I told her it is all right; the Bee is sucking the nectar and would fly away soon. At the same time I thought that I should go and take a photo of that Bee in action. It is not always one get the opportunity to snap a picture of an insect enjoying its meals of nectar. I then put the Micro Lens to my Nikon and went to have a look. Sure enough there is a Bee with its head inside that tiny flower. 

I did not want to disturb it and just snap away as many images as possible using the Micro Lens. Later I touch the Bee but it does not seem to move like Bee does when disturbed. Maybe it was playing dead. I then took a small stick and try to dislodge it. Yes it really got stuck and could not get out of that tiny flower. Slowly and with care as not to hurt that creature I managed to dislodge it. It still a bit weak and did not fly away as would an active Bee does. I slowly put it down on a stick and saw it moving and starts kicking around. That means it still alive. Happy I left it there to regain its strength and fly away. 

Well folks, that is nature at its best.

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