That Time of The Year

The Changing Colours of Autumn

Onions

The Stare? The Glare?

This lil' guy is one of my cats, he and his brother was born while I was in Auckland. But due to unfamiliarity with us the owners (seeing that my Mum is asthmatic, and my Dad couldn't stand cats sweeping at his feet), he's absolutely scared of humans. 

So I can sort of see the wariness in his eyes when I was snapping this photo.

But for one, he didn't run away (I mean a huge lens snapping loudly to your face is kinda scary...), in fact he silently went to sleep as I continued snapping. 

That's when I thought to myself, "there's no mistake, he's definitely our pet!"

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Battered Old Hero

Can you guess what this is?

It's the underside of our old garden trolley! All rusted out and battered, a hero in its own glory.

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Itsy Bitsy Spider in The Sun

It was a fine sunny day yesterday, and my room was heating up quite a bit, even my laptop was heating up and was working on probably 1/4 of its original power and speed.

So, I decided to explore around this huge yard of our house and see what I can find.

While I was at it, I also discovered that it was actually quite cool and windy outside! ^^

After walking round and round for about 2 minutes, I found a superb, huge spider web shining under the blazing sun. And in it was this big beautiful spider.

 Though I don't know what type of spider it was.

It was startled by me moving around the bush and climbed up the web. 

In the pictures above and below, it was trying to climb back down to the middle of the web.

The spots are pretty right.

(^w^)

December 10th, 2011 - Total Lunar Eclipse

After The Rain

Macro sure is a lot of fun.

The sun came out a bit today so I took the chance to snap some macro shots of the plants around my house.

But I still can't handle the weight of this lens so I still can't focus my subject accurately.

So next time,........

I'll use a tripod!

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Birds in The Park

Sigma APO 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG Macro - Macro Test Shot

So I got a new lens yesterday, a budget telephoto with macro capabilities lens - the Sigma APO 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG Macro.

Yes, it is extremely cheap for a lens of its kind.

The macro feature is of course, not a true macro. But its magnification for macro is 1:2, which is pretty decent. And the image quality is also very good, considering its price.

I tried the macro feature out by taking shots of one of my flatmates. I'm still not used to the size and weight of the lens so I couldn't really hold my hands well when I shoot, and the focus point always shift because of that.

But all in all, I think the lens is awesome!

The zoom range is very convenient, the macro feature is a wonderful bonus and the price is to die for!

Very impressed!

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