Great shots!
I look forward to owning a telephoto lens

what kind of track event? actually i'm in KL

but i dont mind to travel to melaka la, since i heard melaka food is very nice

haha your 105mm not tele enough meh?

I planning to let go my 150mm soon

Hi guys, wanna ask a question about my Nissin Di866 M2 flash.

Using it on a D7k body.

sometimes there is burnt smell coming out / smoke ( not those dark smoke )

sometimes after awhile of usage, sometimes during the first flash i fire.

I've been using this flash for 2 years.

Can i send it to technician to check ? if so where?

thanks in advance

Nice. The lens seem quite heavy right?

His hand itchy mia. Semua dia mau beli.

The event page already sent to u through pm.

This post has been edited by wkwong91: Sep 5 2015, 05:12 PM

quite light as a 70-200 f2.8 but nowhere close to a bring everywhere lens la. still I manage to lug it around most of the times when I owned it, one of my favourite lens.

Yeah, definitely not tele enough, its an awesome macro lens, but its not perfect haha Its not very sharp at F2.8 too, which is quite sad, otherwise I wouldn't mind getting a telephoto

There are just too much damn nice birds here, and I really want to photograph them haha

Mangrove Long-Jawed Spider- Tetragnatha josephi ♂ by Ji Tan, on Flickr

Mangrove Long-Jawed Spider- Tetragnatha josephi ♀ by Ji Tan, on Flickr

A spider named after the famous spiderman of Singapore- Joseph Koh.

Mangrove Tetragnatha spiders are in many ways similar to their common cousins found near freshwater habitats: They are long, skinny and have ridiculously large jaws!

Mangrove Tetragnatha spiders are confined to, well, mangrove areas, and have different jaw structure from other species.

Interesting question: How come the males need jaws this big? Is it really that better and capturing prey? Or are they just for show, to tackle the females? XD


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Been busy with college exams and now, macro again.

Yellow Potter Wasp (Eumenes sp.) by Soo Yeak Choo, on Flickr

The name "potter wasp" derives from the shape of the mud nests built by species of Eumenes and similar genera.

When a cell is completed, the adult wasp typically collects beetle larvae, spiders, or caterpillars and, paralyzing them, places them in the cell to serve as food for a single wasp larva. The adult wasp lays a single egg in the empty cell before provisioning it.

Common garden slug by Soo Yeak Choo, on Flickr

Slug is a common name for an apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc.

A flying ant is getting a free slow ride at night.

Butterfly by Soo Yeak Choo, on Flickr

Common butterfly resting at the garden near my house. Identification needed. T_T

Periplaneta sp. by Soo Yeak Choo, on Flickr

Found this cockroach right beside my motorbike. The shape of the compound eyes are so special.

btw anyone know where is sigma service centre in KL? wanna send my lens for calibration and firmware updated. The sigma cannot focus when using live view on my d600

Exam coming soon so no time to photograph anything new Some old shots.

I'm Shy by GM Yong, on Flickr

DSC_5448 by GM Yong, on Flickr

Back with spider spam!


Maybe Black-and-White Jumper (Carrhotus sannio ♀?) by Ji Tan, on Flickr

A cute, common and cooperative jumping spider which can be found on low vegetation in gardens. Been trying hard to figure out the ID of this cute spider, could this actually be the female of a Carrhotus sannio? If it is then the common name may have to be changed haha


Brown Sailor Spider (Neoscona nautica ♀) ready to eat by Ji Tan, on Flickr

A Neoscona spider moving towards her just-wrapped termite fly prey. Neoscona spiders are nocturnal and will start spinning their moderately large webs for the night at approximately 7-8pm. There are plenty of insects at night, so food is usually not a problem.

Like many other orb weaver spiders, a Neoscona doesn't always eat its prey right away, especially when they are already full (like this one).

Multi-coloured Cross Spider (Argiope versicolor ♂) by Ji Tan, on Flickr

A male Argiope versicolor releasing his bridge-line. These male spiders only have one main focus in life, which is to find and mate at least once, and ideally only twice. Male Argiope will only feed and drink every once in awhile; most of the time they will be on the move and hunt for females of the same species.

The males will use their specialized pedipalps to inject sperm into the epigyne of a female. After that, the males will often break one or both of their palps in the epigyne to prevent other males from fertilizing the same female.

The males are so efficient and evolved that they live only to mate, once the 2nd pedipalp is broken in the female's epigyne, the male spider dies immediately, and automatically, and very often it will end up becoming the food for the female- somewhat similar to the sacrificing males in redback spiders.


Boomerang Spider- Rhomphaea sp. ♂ by Ji Tan, on Flickr

This bizarre-looking comb-footed spider iseasy to recognized based on thelong and curvy "tails".

Often hanging on the bottom-side of leaves or branches, these spiders don't really spin a lot of webs to catch preys.


Flat-Bellied Ground Spider (likely Gnaphosidae) by Ji Tan, on Flickr

An unidentified, fast-moving spider found on a tree trunk.

These bizarre-looking spiders are easy to recognized based on their long and curvy "tails".


Often hanging on the bottom-side of leaves or branches, these spiders don't really spin a lot of webs to catch preys.


More on Macro Photography here: PixelsDimension
Check out Malaysia's wildlife here: WildLife Malaysia

That Neoscona shot is damn nice man!
Gonna take photos of spiders with this angle liao.

Green Whip Spider (Ariamnes sp. ♀) by Soo Yeak Choo, on Flickr

Whip spiders are usually green to turquoise in colour, and have a very long abdomen which tapers off at the end.

Thanks to (PF) T.J. for making the shot possible.

Common Black Ground Beetle by Soo Yeak Choo, on Flickr

They live under leaves, old logs, and stones. They can be found in moist woods, fields, and gardens. They look for caterpillars, grubs, fly maggots and other soft body creatures as their prey. Interestingly, they do not fly.

Wasp (Ropalidia sp.) by Soo Yeak Choo, on Flickr

These wasps are usually found a small group (3-4 individuals) building their nests on the undersides of foliages.

The "honeycombs" of the nests usually accommodate one larva (can be seen in photo)

Heteropoda Venatoria by Soo Yeak Choo, on Flickr

She is a domestic Huntsman spider. The female ones are usually larger in size and can be easily identified by a white band across their clypeus (face). The male ones, one the other hand, possess a pair of dark brown patches on the caraspace.

They are nocturnal spiders and can be found inside our house, and occasionally on the tree trunks in gardens or secondary forests.

She belongs to me. If you wish to see her face to face. Come my house. Hahahahaha

Interestingly, they are cockroach eaters!

Carpenter Ant (Camponotus) by Soo Yeak Choo, on Flickr

Carpenter ants, also known as sugar ants, are large ants indigenous to many forested parts of the world. They build nests inside wood consisting of galleries chewed out with their mandibles, preferably in dead, damp wood.

Great shots man!

Curved Long-Spined Spider under UV- Macracantha arcuata ♀ by Ji Tan, on Flickr

Most, if not all spiny spiders have hard and tough abdomens that will fluoresce under UV illumination, even if they are coloured, as seen in this spider.


Check out Macracantha arcuata under "normal" light: https://www.flickr.com/photos/59583171@N07/15268284769

The abdomen is reddish-orange in colour. No doubt one of the most bizarre spiders on Earth.


Red Tent Spider- Cyrtophora moluccensis ♀ by Ji Tan, on Flickr

A red morph of Cyrtophora moluccensis. These spiders occasionally undergo population "explosions" where you can find hundreds of thousands of them building webs along the treelines- an amazing sight!

These spiders can grow quite large, and are fast and agile too. The reliable 3D webs that they build are very efficient at catching prey as well. I wonder why these spiders are not as common as the others as they seem pretty well adapted for survival.

Capped Black-headed Spider- Zygiella cf. calyptrata ♂♀ by Ji Tan, on Flickr

This particular orb weaver spider may be very small, but they usually occur in large amounts, and provide significant control of prey populations. These Zygella spiders prefers drier areas and will often spin their webs by curling up leaves or using dead twigs as the framework.

Based on observation, the males often seem to be slightly larger than the female (in the background).


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Bug (ID appreciated) by Ji Tan, on Flickr

Ground Beetle and Pseudoscorpions by Ji Tan, on Flickr

Note the two small pseudoscorpions on the legs of the ground beetle.
It is said that pseudoscorpions display cleaning associations with beetles, helping them to rid of mites. This sort of symbiosis is often seen in marine fishes as well.


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White mantis (ID appreciated) by Ji Tan, on Flickr


Seen this white mantis a couple of times; it will often press its body flatly against the surface of leaf so that it is hard to notice.

The mantis is pretty quick as well, quite hard to photograph unfortunately.


Female Stag Beetle (?) by Ji Tan, on Flickr

Parallel-spined Gasteracantha feasting- Gasteracantha diardi ♀ by Ji Tan, on Flickr

Gastercantha diardi is a common spiny spider that can be found near secondary forests or highlands. Female Gastercantha diardi spiders are capable of building amazingly large webs 2-3 meters apart, and will often wait at the centre of the web for preys.

Although the females are conspicuous and quite common, the same cannot be said for the males, which are a lot tinier, and often "on the run".


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Check out Malaysia's wildlife here: WildLife Malaysia

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This post has been edited by zul_psang: Sep 14 2015, 04:01 PM