Category: Nature

Nature

Pelican Gossip


Australia remains as one of my favourite holiday destinations for photography… My visit to both Sydney/New South Wales and Perth/Western Australia last year were fruitful photographic trips. The above picture of pelicans preening their feathers by the harbour was taken at Kiama, south of Sydney. Waking about at about 5.30am in the morning, we encoutered a large flock of pelicans perched by the waterside grooming their feathers. Taking cautious steps towards them, we were pleasantly surprised that they ignored us totally as we snapped picture after picture of them, squawking away in their own chattery gossip.

Evergreen

The initial idea I had when I migrated my existing photo gallery / photoblog to Blogger.com was to gradually move the old entries I made there over here (a time-consuming and labour-intensive job really, making sure that the dates of the entries matched the original!).

At the same time during the migration, I chanced upon Photoblogs.org which has found me a new audience / circle of visitors who have not really seen my old site before. Rather than having them click on the old archive links to see my old entries (which can get really tedious), I am now thinking of selecting the best of my old entries, and featuring them now as new posts here for everyone instead… What do you think?

Anyway, here’s one of my favourite pictures that I posted up some while ago:

I was looking for new opportunities to test out my then newly-bought EOS 300D in October 2003 when I came across this peaceful scene by the Botanical Gardens, Singapore. Lighting was a little soft at the time but just sufficient to throw a mild rim-light effect on the dragonfly and flower bud. I like the simple composition as well as the peaceful saturated colours of the shot.

Trees


These trees (on an open field by a block of public housing flats in Sengkang) near where I live caught me and my dad’s attention so much (when we drive by) that we decided to go down to take photos of them on an early Sunday morning (in May this year) eventually. I like the silhouettes of their long stem-like trunks contrasting with the light morning mist. Thankfully we did visit these trees too; a few weeks later, we found that some of the trunks have snapped — perhaps a result of being struck by lightning.