Merimbun Outing

Went with the BSRC Photogs on an outing to Tasik Merimbun on 3rd July 2010, with special invite to Bob Shahrul aka Bob IR. For his IR version of some Tasik Merimbun sceneries, click HERE.

My take:

Some basic HDR

From Tasik Merimbun in HDR | 3 July 2010

From Tasik Merimbun in HDR | 3 July 2010

From Tasik Merimbun in HDR | 3 July 2010

for more HDR photos click HERE

and of course some macro:

From Tasik Merimbun | 3 July 2010

From Tasik Merimbun | 3 July 2010

From Tasik Merimbun | 3 July 2010

From Tasik Merimbun | 3 July 2010

From Tasik Merimbun | 3 July 2010

and a sleepy snake

From Tasik Merimbun | 3 July 2010

For more macro click HERE


^^^

My return

Alhamdulillah, I am back. That was after my wife had been warded in RIPAS Hospital for 12 days. Tomorrow hopefully will be able to get shots of the Highland Games at Panaga Club, Seria.

Random

With so many things ongoing, both at work and play, I find it difficult to concentrate on one thing at a time. If only I could, I want to complete everything, at the best quality within the time given.

Took this with my wife's Sony DSC-W55 point & shoot camera on 15 May 2010

From Belalang | Sony DSC-W55

Took this photo on 22 May 2010, just in time before it rained really heavily

From Dark Clouds | 22 May 2010

Went round my garden after it stopped raining

From After the rain | 22 May 2010

On Sunday 23 May 2010 we started the land preparation of our padi field... long way to go before its ready for planting

From Sunday | 23 May 2010

Went outing in KB Town with BSRC Photography Section members on 28 May 2010

From Kuala Belait Outing | 28 May 2010

From Kuala Belait Outing | 28 May 2010

and macro outing with Ian Frame and Suhaimi on 29 May 2010

From Macro with Ian Frame | 29 May 2010

From Macro with Ian Frame | 29 May 2010

The long weekend was spent between domestic work in the house and a family gathering in Rimba. The outlook for the next two weeks will be very busy with work. And I hope my wife's health will get better.

Random Hybrid shots

Been too busy with work and personal life lately but managed to test my hybrid further in between the busy-ness...

Beautiful Sunday

Sunday 24th January must be one of my happiest day this year. My wife looked well, had lunch at Zaika, went to Labi to visit our future padi field, visited my parents and discovered new insects in my parent's garden.

At about 4 this morning, I however was woken up by my wife asking for sweets and I thought she was having a dream but when I touched her hand it was cold and when I woke up I saw she was drenched in sweat. It's a sign I get familiar with for the last one year... her sugar level had dropped drastically and she need sugar. Woke up, looked for sweets, made her 2 cups of milo and some sweet biscuits. After that she gained a bit of strength but could not get up and she continued her sleep. It was only hours later that she was able to wake and get up and bought her to the KB Hospital but nothing more can be done. I hope she gets better each day but will and had always expected his sort of drawbacks from time to time. I am lucky to have families, friends and colleagues who understand our situation but pity her because amongst most of her friends who understand her plight there exist some who do not and sarcasm becomes 2nd nature to them. May Allah bless us all.

By God's will

There are a lot of things we can plan in life but there are some which you may not plan for but will happen by God's will. After our enjoyable trip to Miri and Singapore my wife was severely suffering from short of breath and the swelling of her feet worsen. She had been complaining of these ailments for nearly the whole of 2009 and last Friday whilst we were in Bandar because I was supposed to attend a company dinner, we decided it was best for her to seek treatment because she could not stand the pain any longer. We spent about 6 hours in the RIPAS Hospital Accident & Emergency Department. The doctor said the swelling was due to excessive water retention and after x-ray the doctor found that she had water in her lungs and had to be admitted immediately.



The evening before that we celebrated my bro-in-law & wife's joint birthdays. They're born on the same date.



Friday morning I was stalking these two insects in my bro-in-law's garden.

The baby grasshopper which was feeding itself on a plant's leaf

From baby grasshopper

and a spider which had just caught a fly for breakfast

From spider

Dragonfly Profile

More macro

A few more macro taken on 11 Dec





Click HERE for more macro

But my favourite is this one

Macro - lite testing

To Bro PainQler, thanks for the words of encouragement. Here's some photos that I captured during the trial of the macro lite.

Let there be light

Bought myself a macro lite system to enhance my hobby - macro photography



Some trials, but have not found insects as my usual victims



BTW that's how it looks in my eye (literally)





More photos here

Macro Ring Lite