Not Too Bad
The weather hasn't been too bad really on and off.
Quite a lot of rain, but it hasn't been too heavy - quite a bit of blue skies too which is nice! Quite a lot of grey skies too which isn't quite so nice...but can't have your cream cakes and eat it!
Been eating plenty, popped up to Birmingham a couple of times going to head down to Minehead for some season action on Wednesday.
Headed down to Worcester Cathedral as well of course.
Perhaps pop up to the Lake District and maybe Blackpool too - that's the plan!
So far so good!
You can find all the posts on my UK trip:
10 commentsMacro at the Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park - Taman Rama-Rama
I went to the Butterfly Park around Jalan Parlimen area a while back in December to test out my new SB-800 flash and macro lens combination.
I was a bit noob then so my shutter speed was a bit slow as I didn't know how to change the flash sync speed (1/60s).
Macro is very challenging, especially on live things that tend to move around.
The shame is in the Butterfly park, the Butterflys are not very colourful and most have tattered wings due to being kept in captivity. I had far more fun shooting the Dragonflys which are quite static during late afternoon.
My First Dragonfly Shot
Moth Eye!
Pussy and Pink
A while ago I was at Peter's place to help with his car, which was rather unsuccessful...so I took some pictures instead.
From now on I shall catch up with processing my pictures and uploading them as I am months and months behind. I've been too busy with other stuff lately.
Introducing Pussy and the Pinks.
This shot is my current wallpaper
My Mom’s Garden, Steak & Lemon Cheesecake
Sorry for the lack of updates, was travelling back from uk, then resting, then had to rush to office, then was re-installing OS, finally time to move into the 21st century, gone is Windows 2000, here is Windows XP! I've been using Win2k since the advanced BETA leaked in early 1999.
I took some pics in Mom's garden, mostly as I was teaching her to take macro shots of flowers, so just used those in the garden as examples so she could get the hang of it.
Technically she picked it up fast, but needed some ideas on being more creative, framing the pictures etc as at the beginning she just took the flowers straight on, which is boring!
She got the idea towards the end, here are my efforts anyway..
A Trip to The Garden Center - If You Like Flowers Look Here
I went to see my decrepid old gran, who's reaching 100 soon..
We took her to the Garden center for lunch, it's quite nice there.
English weather still get's me though, if you sit in the shade, and there's a breeze you need to put a jacket on..but if you move out into the sun you break into a sweat.
Crazy.
This is my Gran's street.
An 8km Walk up the Malvern Hills
So after the hearty pub lunch we took a rather long stroll up to the top of the Malvern Hills, one of the oldest hills in the UK.
We parked at the North Quarry and walked up to the beacon, the highest point in the range.
As it's towards the end of summer a lot of the flowers are going brown and dying off for the browns of Autumn.
