shower

I believe this little fella' doesn't need an introduction.

bird in silhouette

My first sort of actual attempt at capturing bird pics which also happened to be hampered by poor light.

camera porn

One of those shots you take because you're bored.

And yes, I scheduled this post.

late bloomer

Note that this is a scheduled post and I am not really in front of my computer right now having just uploaded this. By the time you read this I'm probably already aboard a plane on my way to Saudi Arabia.

I'm just trying to see if I can fill up my 2 weeks or so absence with a bunch of scheduled posts. Hehe. So if you have any comments on the pictures or anything else, please try to avoid using the chatbox on the sidebar. Well that is if you don't want me to miss it anyways.

whatcha lookin' at?

The same cat from a couple of posts ago. Still hanging around and causing no small amount of grief to my cats.

By the way, I have an announcement to make. I will be gone for about two weeks as I go for the Umrah in Saudi Arabia starting from the 19th of this month and coming back on the 2nd of July. InsyaAllah. So there may or may not be updates in the meantime and probably a few days more after I come back. We'll see how things turn out.

at rest

This is technically a chance encounter. I was in my backyard yet again and trying to shoot birds this time (with a camera of course). Didn't get much luck with them, but then this little flyer came along.

I don't have a macro lens nor a close-up filter so I just had to make do with my 70-300mm VR. Not too shabby for a lens not designed to capture close-ups.

who are you?

One of my cats (the white one) inspects a male newcomer.

I was bored the day I shot this so I decided to take out my uncle's old lens, the Nikkor AF-D 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 from the film days, fixed it on my D80, and just walked around the house looking for things to shoot.

As it is, a couple of male cats from who-knows-where have been hanging around my home lately (and getting into frequent fights with my cats.. territorial dispute I'd guess), and the grey cat in the photo above is the less shy and less aggressive of the two (unwanted) visitors.

Needless to say, I'm pretty impressed by what this old lens can do, granted the lighting was really good at the time and I did sharpen the picture a bit; but only a bit mind you, even less than what I usually apply.

Well the bokeh isn't exactly creamy, I know. It's not exactly a wide aperture lens and this was shot at f/6.3 anyhow. But for such an old lens -and a cheap-o one at that- it sure offers a pretty good performance.

Hm, this has turned into a mini lens review hasn't it?

beyond the tall grass; part iii

Part three and the last part (for now?) of the series. This one is actually HDR work composed of three different exposures. Tried to keep it as realistic as possible.

beyond the tall grass; part ii

Same place as the previous post; different spot. Please ignore the not-so-spectacular clouds on that day. Hehe.

beyond the tall grass; part i

Taken at an unnamed pond in Mentiri. Or maybe it has a name, I just don't know what it is.