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like ur "Famous landmarks" keep it up.
the tiger look sick leh

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Equipment: pss2is

Penang Chapter PC Fair : 4th, 5th. and 6th August. Talk about traffic jam!!


I was there for almost one hour, about half an hour trying to negotiate my way from the entrance to the other side of the exhibition, I mean bazaar floor. Was there primarily to get a dvd writer for my sister.
Ok I lied a bit, I didn't spend about half an hour to get from one point to the other, it was close to about 15 minutes each way.
I didn't take any model pictures, but the ones manning the Olympus booth seems to be the best looking ones there.

Equipment: pss2is

Playground,...

This playground has never been played by children, even the ones that live around it, as far as I know.

I intentionally underexposed the picture to get a darker atmosphere for the playground.

Equipment: pss2is

Positive, Negative.


Saw the design of this building while attending my cousin's wedding in Adelaide, Australia.
My first attempt at ps'ing my own photo.

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The Coffee Bean

The Coffee Bean Shop in Adelaide's Chinatown market, manned by Oz Caucasian. Whichever suits your fancy, they've got it.

Cherries,...

Not yet in full season, so these were expensive, and not as sweet tasting.

Peaches?

In case you're wondering, they are not peaches. They are nectarines, sweet tasting, melts in your mouth nectarines, being sold here in Malaysia at about RM5 per piece. I coundn't remember the price for them, but I know I could get more than 5 pieces for 3 AUD. Also, not in full season yet, so those were also rather expensive. My uncle told me he could get a carton for 10 AUD when in season. Talk about cheap juicy fruit...

Power of PSS2IS Unleashed!

This photo taken when I had nothing better to do while sitting (bogged) down with shopping bags, and at at least 12 feet away from the shop. Zoomed, without flash, IS switched on, and stopped breathing for 5 seconds. Any longer and your hands would shake.

Tram, something no longer seen in Penang.

This tram has only one destination, Glenelg beach where Adelaidians can sunbath in the,... well not nude anyway.

The Monument/Landmark of Glenelg Beach

I read the story behind the monument, the ship it featured, and for all of eternity could not remember a word written about it. The general idea that I have is that a group of people sailed in the ship, landed at the beach and decided to stay there. And many years later, they make a monument to commemorate the day.


That's long, wow. Enjoy the photos.

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Equipment: pss2is

My World, Grey World, Colourless, Odorless.



Supermacros of my work area. Too free yesterday (Monday), with nothing to do, except playing with my camera, and watching Seinfeld on my computer.
Pengo is a brand in US where I bought a keyboard drawer.

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Equipment: pss2is
More Supernatural photos.....




All taken in the same night... yes, taken in the same night but they are not, I repeat not photos of you know what from the other side. If they really are, I wouldn't actually have stayed in the room any longer than neccessary. After the first picture, you would find me about 1 km from the room. Mind you, this was taken in the room that I currently sleep in every night, for the past 11 years. I moved into this house in '95, stayed in the room as a single guy, got married in '02, became the bridal suite (this room has no connection whatsoever to the supernatural thread that I start, and which now has more views that this thread, and now this thread felt a bit threatened by that thread which seems a little bit unfair, considering the thread starter is the same person that takes all the photos, and I'm getting way off topic here). No wait, there was a period of 2.5 years when I was away to study.
Back to the photos, taken in my room in the middle of the night. These are my experimental long exposure/available/low light photos. All the lights are either from my power extensions, modem, wireless mouse receiver, card reader, wireless mouse, night light and probly dust reflecting light on the lens, and that's about it. I forgot to add my lappie monitor.
I actually got the idea browsing a photography forum where the forumer took a picture at 1:20 or 40 am outside his house. Exposure was 20 sec, camera mount on a tripod, f-stop at the highest. Available light was from the full moon. The photo came out looking like it was taken in broad daylight, with blue sky and clouds. All the colour stood out beautifully. Well, my photos are nothing like that. Maybe another night, I'll take that kind of photos.

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Equipment: pss2is

Respect: Earned not Forced.

Respect for the national flag knows no known boundaries, as shown above, even the Sun, center of the Solar system shines its rays on the Jalur Gemilang, and the Penang State flag.
And I had to wait for about 5 minutes for the right effects to display itself....

Equipment: c-740uz

Follow the Mengkuang crowd,...




We took a trip to the dam in 2004, with my wife and her friends (all but one still single at the moment: and all still without baby, except for my wife). sh said she wanted to take in some fresh air, and also to visit the place after about 15 years. Nothing much has changed from what I can see from the photos. The place was so quiet, even with the walkers and joggers that I was afraid to talk too loudly. If you notice by now, I like to take photos of animals/creatures, though the opportunities doesn't always present itself unless I was to purposely visit a zoo (something that is quite lacking in Penang. KL has a zoo, even Taiping and Bukit Merah has one. But here in Penang, we only have the Butterfly farm, and Reptile Garden (hopefully is still in business), also not to mention the Botanical Gardens where visitors can interact directly with the simian lifeforms which seems to be of abundance there. Anyway, the best place to actually get in contact with the simians is actually the Coronation Camp camping site (mostly closed to the public). you could have unrestricted exchanging of food and dead cells, though at your own risk. Usually contact with them will result in a: injury to yourself, and b: injury to others and yourself. Thus it is not such a good idea anyways to be interacting with the simians.
I remember that they used to have gorrilas (sp?) and kangaroos in the Botanical gardens in Penang. But, unfortunately, they couldn't survive to this day.

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Equipment: Canon EOS 350D w/kit lens

Virgin Shoot.


Yup. My oldest daughter. Shot with my first dslr.

Australia, in my room.

Close up of the koala clip bought in Sydney, my first trip to Oz to attend my cousin's wedding in 2002. Also he's the younger brother of my cousin whose wedding we attended in 2005.

My new toy.


Well, one week old toy anyway. It's the lastest fighter jet being developed in the US to replace it's current generation of fighter jets. It uses stealth technology, weapons hidden inside the fighter, thrust-vector for better manuvering ( as seen in the Macross Plus ova.

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Congrats for obtaining your dslr.. Hope to see more great shots from you! I'm still contemplating on whether to get a S3 IS or staright jump to 350D.... How do you find the 350D?

thanks... I agonised for two weeks whether to get the 350d or the nikon d70s, looked through every source I could find, read all the post, looked at sample photos,... but the free lens did it for me.
if you'd like to take short video clips while shooting photos, the s3 is good. the video file size will be rather big, but easy to convert to other formats/codec.
if you'd like to just take photos, the 350d so far is easy to handle. haven't played much with it yet.

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http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/847/img02622si.jpg

So terribly typically a Citroen

CITREON PICASSO?

Correct!!

Equipment: pss2is

Power of Burst!!

Burst of the S2IS taken at L-Fine, joined with PicJoiner. The shutter button was released only to change the zoom of the photo. And I didn't even scratch the bottom of the buffer!
Her photos taken with the 350D will follow later when I have the time to look through them.

wah~ congrats u first for the new born baby.

Equipment: Eos350D

Deja vu?

Hm,... didn't I already posted a photo of the lens cover a couple pages back?? The color is somehow different with this photo too,... PS? Well, this is to commemorate my purchase of the 350d, and the photo shows the lens cover for the kit lens 18-55mm. Adequate for normal day to day uses, such as taking photos during parties, chinese wedding functions ie tea drinking, dinner, yam seng,.., but won't really do any good such as taking voyueristic candids of people from afar, not that I take that kind of photos, but I do, once in a while. Anyway, why didn't I take a photo of the lens itself? Simple, I needed the lens to focus the light to the cmos, sort of a catch-22 situation, remove the lens to take a photo of the lens, I have no lens to focus on the lens. If I fix the lens to the camera, then I wouldn't have the lens as a subject for photo taking.
Anyway, I took a total of about 10 photos, and I find that I am increasingly using higher and higher iso just to counter the blurred photo due to shaky hands and the lack of use of the flash. This photo was taken at iso800, and there is barely any noise or graininess to the photo. Yeah for the 350d dslr.

Aedes?

What's with a the questions all of the sudden? Again with the questions.
100% crop ( a term I learned from too much browsing of the camera review sites) of the mosquito that bit both of my daughters, three times on my youngest daughter's leg. My wife caught the little blood-sucker with a transparent container usually found in vegetarian restaurants when you order take out, or at soya bean juice stalls all over the country, and Penang. If you ever wondered if a mosquito has any weight, or how hard its exoskeleton is, wonder no more. The mosquito has weight, and the exoskeleton is very strong. I could shake the container with all my strength and the mosquito could still fly around inside. But after 5 hours in the container, it became rather docile, allowing me to remove the lid and take this photo. Also, if you ever wondered if mosquitos give out moisture, yes they do. The container was quite visibly fogged up with condensation (sp?) at the end of the 5 hour detention, and I had to remove the lid to take its photo.

Equipment: Eos350D
She has her mother's toes and nose.

My two year old, number 1 fan of Tom & Jerry. Now everytime she has two of the stuffed toys with her, the first thing she says is "Da Jia!" (Round 1 (I added this myself) Fight!). I know, I know, violence is bad, but her crying is even worst! Hopefully, I wouldn't do the same mistake I did with her. And so, I was given a second chance to make good on my resolution.


The first mistake, I think I did was to name her Jonelle, her sister's name is Pristine by the way. Well, I think it was a mistake because I couldn't find out the meaning of her name from the dictionary, and even the internet. They say a name has to have meaning, to both the parents and the baby, who will later grow up and then have babies of their own, and starts the vicious cycle of giving meaningful names to babies. I had wanted to name her Summer, which would have suit her fine considering she seems to have a perpetual tan even without going under the sun. But my wife was against it. It has a meaning you see, she was conceived during the summer months of the land down under. Well, Jonelle actually does have a meaning for me, and just me and not anybody else, per se. Jonelle was a beautiful name, sounded soft and feminine, and french. Trillian was a name I picked up reading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam (who died rather prematurely, not that he was born premature or anything, just died young and he was in the gym too, when tht happened. Irony has a way of getting to people, I guess. He was exercising to keep fit, and instead, it killed him.)
But everyone was against the name Trillian, so I settled on Jonelle, a name I was going to give to Pristine, but she somehow communicated to me on my way home from the hospital that she wanted to be named Pristine. Jonelle is indeed my second chance of doing things right, or doing the right thing.
Anyways, enjoy the photos.

Equipment: Eos350D

Confectionery

This is a short series of photos featuring the most beautiful and delicious chocolate sprinkle-cover cake that I've had the pleasure of consuming since the birthday cake I had on and after Pristine's two years old birthday party. The order for this cake was placed online about 7 hours flight away from Singapore, add in another hour from Penang to Singapore, that's about 8 hours away from Penang. Now, who could have placed an online order from so far away? Jonelle's great (oops) grand aunt of course, whom we visited in Adelaide at the end of last year, whose son got married this year in April in Bangkok, which we did not attend as my wife was pregnant with Jonelle. Well missed out on a lot of photo opportunities there, probably would have had the chance to photograph a grown man climbing a tree there (w/reference to follow the photo game ;P ). Well, this is the second time my aunt has sent presents via online purchase. The first time was when Pristine was born, flowers, chocolates, and a teddy bear. This time around, it was cake instead of chocolates. Anyway, the company was based in Seberang Perai, cake was baked by Sunflower Bakery and Cakehouse (or something along that line of name: I've thrown away the box). Wonder how much she spent for that order, and how much the company made . So, I've duly thanked her and her family, there was a new name on the card, which was her daughter-in-law's name, and I've taken the photos here and sent them to her, exactly the same thing I did the first time around. Well, not exactly the same, I didn't join the photos into 1 file, and I didn't use a dslr to take the photos. So sue me!

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Equipment: Eos350D

Lights! Camera! Action!

This was one of the first reasons i wanted to get a slr camera. I've seen postcards of Kek Lok Si which was taken during CNY and the photog made this great shot of sort of flying towards the Pagoda when it was lit at night. So, about 8 years back, I had a friend who owned a film slr camera (I had forgotten which brand it was, but it was not important) who was good enough to loan me her camera for a month. I took 4 rolls of film of the same subject but none of them turned out the way I wanted it to look. That's a hundred over photos. Of course I had no idea how to go about getting this kind of shots.
So what happened? I read up on photo technique books (I have two of them), learned more about apertures and shutter speeds, exposures, zooming, focusing, etc etc etc, but I had never had a chance to put what I read into practice. All the cameras I bought before does not have the function that I needed to get this kind of photos. I was too poor to buy a dslr at that time. This is a considerable investment for me and my income is only about 25000 per annum. So, finally, to cut a long story short, my experimental shots (took about 5 of them during a traffic stop, had no tripod, no better subjects, and I was actually on my way back from the hospital, Jonelle was born on that day) and decided that these were presentable. Come this CNY, expect more of this kind of photos from me. I know of a perfect location to set up camera and take beautiful, and unobstructed view of Kek Lok Si temple.

Equipment: Eos350D

C-PL filter

Here's the pl filter that I got with my 350d purchase. They had to order it and was only available for collection on 14/09/2006. So far I've taken quite a few with and without the filter and the result was beautiful.
Here's a photo taken with the filter attached. Please bear with me as I learn to use the filter.

Here's with the filter removed. I shot these two photos in P mode so the exif data will be different. Could that have skewered the results? Well, I might need to experiment more with the filter then.


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cpl filters work better in non-cloudy situations.. correct me if i'm wrong.

i know that it brings out the cloud more. I'll post a few pictures later.

Equipment: Eos350D

Further playing with the new C-PL filter


Twisting the filter gave me a different look of the scene, going from darker to lighter to just perfect, in terms of color, well for me anyways.
Full size @ 427x640 photos.



Now you see it, now you don't


Abracadabra! Reflections be gone! **Poof** This is the main reason for my wanting a PL filter for my camera. Minors reasons are as I find out. Well, one being exampled above.

Equipment: Eos350D

The Canon 90-300 USM

The following series of photos are of me playing gleefully with my newly received 90-300 lens. Well, they were suppose to give me the 75-300mm as stated on the receipt due to the lack of 90-300 stock, but the original promotion was for the 90-300. So, they got in a shipment for the 90-300 lens and gave one to me.

Virgin shot with the 90-300 @ 300mm from the carpark of the Canon Marketing Office.


Not a virgin anymore but still give good photos.


@ 90mm, the lens at its widest, I couldn't get the whole tower into the photo, so I took two photos, stitched it with the software from canon and posted here.
Be warned: Big Filesize.


This was for in case my submission to the Man-made waterfall in Follow the Photo Game was rejected.


My daughters, Pristine and Jonelle


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Equipment: Eos350D

The Canon 90-300 USM Continued....

For comparison here's one @ 55mm from the kitlens


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Goddess of Mercy Looking Down on Her Subjects.


From Kek Lok Si Temple, photo taken from the balcony of my home. (Oh NO!!, That just narrowed down my location for my enemies!!)
The pillars are the soon to be shelter for the bronze statue.

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Equipment: Eos350D

The Canon 90-300 USM Continued.... Please bear with me, almost **pant** done.

@ 300mm

Shot from my balcony, leaves at the end of the branch of a tree.

@ 90mm

Christmas comes early this year.
@ 300mm

Hm,... the Christmas tree seemed a tad too small this time around.

To the Gutters!

I just like the composition of the photo and the general sharpness of the colours.

The red palm in front of my house. This tree was the reflection shown in the earlier PL filter photo.

But I just concentrate on one part of the tree.

There, quite a productive morning I might say so myself. Spent all of 30 minutes taking the photos (while the wife and kids were asleep). And then spent three hours preparing all the photos (resizing, stamping, joining, thinking of things to say about them) for upload.

Enjoy.

One word can describe your works, AWESOME! I am so impressed looking over and over at the photos you taken...

bro, some of the pic abit blur to me...no tripod?
some are super sharp...

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Thanks, to both your comments.

@aaron,

I exchanged the free tripod for the c-pl filter. But i've got my old tripods from my previous cameras, just didn't use them.

tripod change change to CPL filter...the CPL filter is expensive ler...haha...great deal then....

gold3knight, got something to ask about ur cpl......does the front still have the filter thread to put another filter?
what brand is it??

interested to get one ler....not now, but want to...not sure when....
no $$$ now...

Wah...red palm close -up nice leh. I also must go try. Since I inherit the 350 D and 2 lens , dunno what pix to take. The few samples I took are

The filter brand is raydawn, as pictured in post #47 about 1/4 of the way down from the top. It has thread, so you could screw another filter to it.

ic ic.....not bad........got a step up ring from 43/ 46 to 58?? and then step back down to 46??

have to ask the camera shops about this.

Equipment: Eos350D + 90-300 USM

Now everyone can fly!


There are many advantages to staying in a small island with its own international airport. Namely, short distance to travel from anywhere on the island to the airport. It takes me 15 mins to get from my house to the airport, half an hour if traffic is moderate to heavy, and 5 mins in the middle of the night. Another advantage is the ease to photograph flying aeroplanes. Now I have two good spots to take their photos, one where the plane is taking off, the other where the plane is landing. I'll sort of maybe let you guys know the location, not the exact locale cause I don't know if you'd take a rocket launcher to shoot at the planes or not. Who knows, the separatist might be reading this...
The first location, to take photos of planes taking off is off the main highway going to the airport by the coastal route. That's where they (the planes) fly towards the straits of malacca to avoid crashing into buildings in the event of an emergency. The second location is the main road leading to a location known as Batang to the local people. From that location, you could actually see the undercarriage of the plane, with wheels deployed flying/dropping towards you. The noise will be immense. Event with the windows rolled up, I had to turn the car radio up to block out the sound of the engine gunning at me. Well, I haven't been to the second location to take photographs yet. However, when I did stop there before to show my cousin and her ozzie husband where the plane came in to land, we were questioned by patrolling police officers. What wonders being with a foreigner ie white people, will do. I don't believe I need go on about the encounter, right?

Flowers & Antz


Admit it, you love them as photography subjects, but hate them as pests that come after your sweets and sugar, and drinks and coffee, even water and rice.

Here's Looking at You.


Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a bird, to be lighter than air when you want, to fly off to distance places high in the sky, to look down on all the buildings, look for targets to poo on, and finally to taste the salty meat of earthworms? Also, have you wondered if the bird you're looking at while wondering what it's like to be a bird to wondered back at you, to be human, being heavier than air, to fly off to distance places only with the help of budget airlines with catch phrases like "Now everyone can fly" and "Fly cheap everday", looking like a bird without feathers, and holding a silly contraption pointing at itself, with the left hand fingers twitching and twisting a cylinder with reflecting sand.
Well, stop wondering! It'll do you no good and just gets in the way of taking good photos.

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Equipment: Eos350D w/KtL

City of Green


While travelling on the road, we don't really notice all the trees that lined the roadside, grew up in house compounds and such. So why is that? Well, for one thing, if you notice the tree in front of you, then one of two things would or has happened. You've parked in a parking lot in front of a tree, or you have parked your car on the tree. The former is a good thing, the latter a bad thing to happen. Just recently, I was driving, and with the exception of the roads around the Komtar building, the roads are all lined with trees. Trees everywhere, all kinds of trees, giving shades and causing road hazards to drunk drivers. So if you choose to get drunk, don't drive in Penang.

A Tale of Two Towers


Two very different towers, designed by different architects, built by different contractors, possibly inspected by different officers from the building commission, fire department, etc, housing different class of people, built for different functions, but shares two things in common. They are built on the millionnaires stretch called Jalan Sultan Something Shah (I can never remember their names, even when in Form 4 and Form 5 during history class) facing a sea front and being in the photo together. No points for guessing the buildings.

That's all for now. Enjoy and do leave a word or two.
Thanks.

This post has been edited by gold3knight: Sep 23 2006, 01:56 AM

I dun understand lar ... those new owners got telephoto zoom lenses ALWAYS start by shooting aeroplane one!
Dun say people, last time I also like that, with FILM somemore

I like the bird shot actually, like the bugger looking at you asking "Woi, apa shooting-shooting, apa lu mau?!"

This post has been edited by ac98: Sep 25 2006, 10:19 AM

If the opportunity presents itself, why reject it.

Thanks, I took close to 30 shots of that bird and this photo captured what I wanted to say.

This post has been edited by gold3knight: Sep 25 2006, 11:42 AM

wooo, now everyone's picture tells a mini story already.

not bad ar the bird, can look at you some more when u shoot it.

Next time one bird is going to give a 'peace' sign at him

Thanks.
Later this evening, I'll present to you a photo of a dragon floating in the sky.

Knight,

Your post re your daughters' names; had me thinking of one Kdrama comedy.."My Name is Kim Sam Soon". it's about a girl whose life was so miserable due to the supposedly "ah lian' name given by her dad.

Pretty baby you got there!

Sorry WildPiew, missed your post there...

Thanks to both of you.

Well, I didn't want my daughters names to be Ting/Ling/Ching/Mei/Lan/Hwa/Jing/Xin/ and so on and so forth so I decided to find something uncommon. I've searched the baby name websites and they don't have the names listed. Hopefully the two names I picked for them are not common.

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Equipment: Eos350D

Now You See It, Well, You Get It.


Here's another interesting, well thing that I found out about the C-PL. I was just holding the camera up to my laptop and suddenly the screen went blank. WT... brought my camera down, and it was still switched on. Then I remembered I had the filter attached. With a twist, the screen went blank again.
Both the photos were taken with the same settings, same shutter speed, same apeture, same iso. But two things were different. One: Twist of the PL filter. Two: Shaking hands is never the same everytime.

My First Edit


This is the first time I use Paint Shop Pro to actually change the colour of the photo. I was trying to get the lonesome feel of the cat but looking at the photo,I don't get any feeling at all. Need more practise.

What The...


First it was the bird, now even the cat is giving me the look. There must be something strange on my head for them to take notice of me.

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Equipment: Eos350D

Miniature Plant.

I've been taking photos of flowers around my house and felt that I should branch out a bit, so I went to the local swimming club and took photos of the flowers there instead. In case you're wondering, my hands were shaking, and I didn't use flash. Well, I think I didn't use flash. It was over so fast, I didn't even know what happened.

Honey Suckle.


Remember when you were young and had this kind of flowers around your school or home, or kampung? Remember plucking the flowers, then at the end of the stalk, pull it out, and there, a drop of nectar, so small you can hardly see it. But when you touch your tongue to it,...well nothing as well. Maybe it wasn't such a sweet memory after all. What was I thinking, sucking on the end of a plant's reproductive organ. YUCK!

Equipment: Eos350D

Raining Silver


What's that? Silver, from the sky? Or is my silver roof melting in the hot sun. Wait a minute, the sun's not up yet. And the sky is dark with rain clouds.
For these shots, I had to use the flash, then cut out the parts that I didn't want. Mother nature helped me with these shots. I would not just pour water on the roof just to take this kind of photos.

RECap (w/Olympus C-740UZ)


Here's the Teh Tarik photo that I took when my cousin and her ozzie husband-to-be visited us in June last year. She came here for a short visit, took wedding photos at France Taipei (she liked our wedding photos, some of which we sent to her), held a small get together dinner at Cititel Hotel. Ate (not at) local food, some of which was the famous (I think) roti canai stall at Transfer Road Penang (it's the parallel road with Penang Road, behind Odeon Cinema).

This post has been edited by gold3knight: Sep 26 2006, 05:18 PM

great pic and great short story....
Honey Suckle....haha..i do that when i was young...it's actually taste sweet...

Miniature Plant...i think is abit OOF

Equipment: Eos350D
Enter the Dragon.


As promised, here's the head of the dragon. It was raining this morning when I took the photo. And the Heavenly Jade Emperor decided that since the Shelter for the Kek Lok Si Goddess of Mercy statue hasn't completed, a dragon should float down and give her shelter.
Without further delay, click below for the complete dragon.


Enjoy.

Does the 350D inspires users to take pictures of similar objects?

I was actually at a loss scouting for subjects for test shots of my newly acquired gears. Ended up with pictures of things within 1 km of home. And I actually have taken many of the same things as you did! Had rain drops from the dawn rain this morning and birdie shots as the sun sets. Alas, the pictures are really not up to expectation.Got lots to learn.

Are you sure that you are the subject of interest to both the bird and the cat? Were they at the same place at the same time? Perhaps they were eyeing each other...the game and the hunter?

Nice take of the bird anyway.. It sort of gave you the cynical look.

This post has been edited by ??!!: Sep 26 2006, 12:10 AM

Hehehe, I don't know.

The photo of the cat and bird was taken days apart, and one in the early hours of the morning (bird) and the other late afternoon (cat). The cat is actually sitting on the roof of my porch. Photo was taken from the window of the master bedroom.

i like the wave shot......

It's not the doing of the 350Ds that made their owner shoot, it's the SPIRIT of photography itself, the craving for better results, the thirst for that perfect image, an interpretation of your inner creativity ...

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/9289/img1342dt0.jpg

I hardly can see Kwan Yin ... if only it's brighter, then it's a complete story.

Thanks for visiting.
I've looked and didn't find any wave shot. Unless it was the one under Komtar (90-300mm virgin shot). Those are clouds.

I'll try some adjustment to see if i can bring her out more. No promises.

29/09/06 17:51:17

Equipment: Eos350D (w/ 90-300)

I'm a bit backed up, so I'll just do a quick and dirty post.

Temple


Now all I need are photos of a church, and a mosque, both of which I am currently reluctant to take photos of for fear of being arrested due to paranoia.

A Class Car


This new Merc looked nice from the rear. The driver looked nice too. Can't say much bout her passenger though.

Huh?


What the,... you again. Stop taking my photos.

Beezzzz...


What's nice about the 90-300 is that you can never know what you'll see when you do a quick zoom, focus and burst-snap of a flowerbed by the side of the road as the lights turn green and the cars behind you blowing their horns like there was no tomorrow. Well guess what, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow arrived, you inconsiderate driver!

My Nemesis


Nuff said.

29/09/06 13:09:42

Equipment: Eos350D (w/ 90-300)

Second Outdoor Nightshots


with flash. Took two shots, one was OOF (how the heck that happened? Had it on AF). This one was passable.

Lights


After taking this photo over and over again, I now know what to invest next on my camera. IS lens and a pair of steady hands.

Yellow Crescent


This was actually the first shot I took as I step out of the house, hand held, and the only one usable from my series of shots of the moon. The rest, I wouldn't even let it out of the folder where they're being kept.

Globe


This is the non-functioning gate light that was installed when the now non-functioning automatic gate was, er installed as well. When functioning, it didn't really help much either.
That's all for the night shots. I took quite a few others but they are nothing to shout at.

29/09/06 13:20:09

Equipment: Eos350D (w/ 90-300)

Flags


I'm sure the words mean something to someone but they don't mean anything to me. I can't read Chinese. I'm what they call AMS (Ar Mor Sai).


I really liked the way the first photo turned out, so I grabbed another one at a closer range. And I liked this one too.

This post has been edited by gold3knight: Sep 29 2006, 06:28 PM

29/09/06 13:24:50

Guess what.


This was taken with my pss2is, with supermacro mode. I had the lens right up it's butt. But I had to leave a little crack so that the light from my lamp could light up the subject. The bug was about 4mm in length. Cool, huh?

More from PsS2is



This one from my old, old C700UZ


I'm beginning to feel I've run out of things to photograph. It's either the sky/clouds, hills, people sending their kids to the daycare centre beside my house, people going to work. I need to get out more.

29/09/06 13:29:42

Equipment: pss2is

The Sky, Your Kingdom.


May you find what you are searching.

29/09/06 13:31:36

Equipment: Eos350D w/KtL

Fake!


Flowers in my bathroom, by the sink, below the mirror, beside my three level glass rack, jammed pack with things I do not use. Need I say more?

For Lack of Intereting Subjects.


Here's a self-portrait, PP with software infrared filter, noised and resized.

W/ 90-300


Here's another one, just for good measure. Now, tell me, how many of you have stood in front of the mirror, hold up your dslr and say, okay, I'll shot this beautiful camera? Be honest now. don't be shy.

This post has been edited by gold3knight: Sep 29 2006, 06:26 PM

29/09/06 13:37:25

Equipment: Eos350D w/90-300

Clouds in Heaven.


I promised myself I'd go out more often, and I just went about and done getting out. And while I was outside, I saw this beautiful cloud formation that I just had to find a quiet spot on the road to stop and shoot. I did just that, and I was glad.

Coconuts?


Try to imagine, looking up as you relax on an easy chair and see the coconut trees, wind blowing on its leaves, swaying back and forth, and hear the ocean just off the the side. And you strained to hear the ocean, and strained. But what you hear instead, is the roar of the motorcycles as they rushed by as soon as the lights turn red on the other side. Coconut trees, in the middle of the town. That's Penang for you.

This post has been edited by gold3knight: Sep 29 2006, 06:26 PM

29/09/06 13:53:32

Equipment: Eos350D /90-300

Leaning Tower of Pinang.


My shot of Komtar, coupled with my newly purchase UVfilter, one for each lens. And a blowers. All cost just RM65. Is it a bargain? I wouln't know. I didn't shop around. But I think it was a very decent price for the items. Now, my wish list for accessories are: Lens Adapter for my S2, spare battery for my 350D, battery grip, lowerpro bag, those L lens that I saw a customer using as I made my filter purchase, well that's about all.

Dragon Tale


And to close todays postings: The mighty dragon reared its head again yesterday.
And I've got to go.

Thanks for wading through all my mess.

Hey, where's the topless self-portrait you promised us?!

I'll be dead honest. I've taken many shots like the one you took...Shots of myself taking picture.However,the subject matter is not the camera, but for lack of having things to photograph.

That bug with the bushy tail-end..yaks! (to the bug, I mean) I feel like sneezing now..ah...a..choooo!

How did you get the shot of the crescent moon? Tried to catch it last night but wasn't successful.