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| Wednesday, 5-Apr-2006 10:54 |
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Happy 3rd shed!
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My darling Kwayteow had its (haha still don't know its sex!) third shed (since coming home with me last year) yesterday!
What a happy little python after going through the ordeal of crawling out of its skin!
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| Sunday, 26-Mar-2006 11:29 |
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ANOTHER photo!
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itsy bitsy (or not) spider...
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Ok I admit.. a little unsharp mask from photoshop saved this one... the original was slightly lacking contrast. So now I have TWO pictures from the trip.. hurrah... 
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| Saturday, 25-Mar-2006 13:57 |
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Colourless
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Tones... Its hard enough to paint a picture without colour...
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| Saturday, 25-Mar-2006 13:34 |
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ONE photo!!!
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Ok, so here's how it goes... Monash Photography Club organises this trip to the You Yangs, citing spectacular views and heaps of wildlife.
Turns out, its more of a social event than a photography trip, and a bunch of about 50 of us take a short 40min walk up a little peak, making enough noise to scare away anything with ears in a 50m radius of the group. On top of that its a rushed walk, leaving hardly any time to compose photos, sniff the flowers etc. Why the rush? A Barbecue lunch... food's always the culprit isn't it??
Ok so I've dragged myself out of bed early on a Saturday morning, taken a 1 1/2hr bus ride to the You Yangs, and find myself amongst a bunch of chatty uni students who sound kinda like a fish market (don't get me wrong, they were a great bunch, but hey I really wanted to get some photos out of the trip... after all it was supposed to be a "photography trip"!). Then, to rub it in, in the rush to keep up with the group, I fumbled and dropped my camera while mounting it to a monopod, effectively ending the useful life of my trusty 70-300mm lens. Great, there goes all hope of wildlife now, not to mention the photography assignment worth 50% that I'll have to do in the coming week.
In all though, I got ONE photo out of it. So here it is. Had to take it with my 50mm, so this is a majorly cropped photo, but hey, I'm glad I didn't come home empty handed after all! Hmm... and maybe I have a new excuse to pick up a nice 400mm 5.6L prime! Wonder if my parents will fund that.... ah quit dreaming Chris!
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| Saturday, 25-Mar-2006 13:20 |
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More feather flapping friends...
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Tawny Frogmouth. Also a master of camouflage.
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Ok he didn't have feathers but hey, he had "plumage" of his own!
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Here are some more of the bird photos I said I'd put up from the Serendip Sanctuary trip. There's more to come, but hey I'm a busy student... and no, I didn't steal the turtle photo from Jas!
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| Saturday, 18-Mar-2006 11:28 |
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Sunset boulevard?
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Amber skies
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Nothing much to enter today... just felt like posting 'coz this was the first nice sunset I've had in a long while, where I actually had my camera with me.
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| Sunday, 5-Mar-2006 08:04 |
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Going where the wind blows?
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Random kite surfer..
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Busy!! that's what this week has been.. manning the counter for CCM at the O-fest (Orientation programme for the freshies!), sorting out classes (Dropped a unit in psychology to do photography... I love electives!), helping friends out, spending time with Jas, and of course, spending time with God.. and the assignments have already kicked in too!
With no space to move, just taking things as they come along is all I've been able to do... kinda like I had to go where the wind took me. Hopefully things will chill down slightly over the next month...
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| Thursday, 16-Feb-2006 15:43 |
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A long hot day...
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Sitting at my desk, sweating away on a hot summer's night. Met our new housemate, Tim, for the first time today. Great chap, eager to grow in the Lord.. would be a great addition to the household! Just flipping through some of the things we saw at the Serendip wildlife sanctuary on Tuesday. This white faced heron was really tame, and later on came within a few feet of us! Will put up more of the photos from that trip when I've the time to sift through and process them all, but in the meantime, this one can act as a sampler of things to come...
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| Tuesday, 14-Feb-2006 15:25 |
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That day...
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300+ photographs of various wildlife, a prayer meeting, a home cooked candlelit dinner of steak and baked potatoes with a sticky-date pudding to cap it all. That was Valentine's day for Jas 'n myself.. Ah every day can be valentine's day...... love you heaps, Min!
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| Wednesday, 8-Feb-2006 13:46 |
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Red = occupied
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This is what kept me occupied today. I finally had to admit to myself that I didn't really have a clue on exactly what F-value would give what depth of field, so I spent the afternoon experimenting with this hibiscus as a subject. This photo comes from a set of about 80 nearly identical ones, and as you can tell, I still haven't quite got it... I had the aperature stopped down to f22 for this shot and I still don't have the whole flower in focus (further petal edges aren't crisp). Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree...
Pardon the blemishes on the flower.. it was the nicest one on the bush. Well the nicest one in the sun anyway, 'coz I was shooting handheld... 
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