Garden photoshoot

Lense cipanku rosak.

Saya bukan photographer. Saya hanya pandai point and shoot sahaja ye, harap maklum. Tetapi dengan lense yang elok sikit, maka akan nampak elok sikit lah gambar tu. Oleh kerana saya nak bawak camera pergi Paris nanti tidak lama lagi, maka terpaksa-rela lah mengganti lense yang dah rosak tu. Tak de la cipan je gambar macam kebanyakan gambar yang ditangkap menggunakan camera Blackberry dalam blog ini :p Haih...terpaksalah forgo a pair of flats for this, demmit.

Actually the camera was handed down to me by my other half who has given up on photography. Malas katanya. Ok, no worries, thank you Yang. I knew it hehehe.

Saya suka photography dan appreciate a nice shot. Walaupun saya belum rajin lagi nak belajar pasal nak ngejas aperture atau shutter speed, ala2 la perasan pandai composition. Tak pandai sebenarnya, tapi bagi can la kan hahaha.

Anyway, petang ini saya ke rumah ibubapa yang kini berada di luar negara, untuk graduation adik...

Gambar yang dihantar semalam; mum and dad with child no 4, 5, 6 and 7. Wish I was here...Ring of Kerry, Ireland. Is this close to your place LadyLovesLeisure? Or Parknasilla perhaps? I've never been to Ireland and hence clueless about the place :p


Disebabkan saya anak yang paling boleh diharap hahaha just kidding, maka saya telah diamanahkan untuk menyiram pokok bunga dan memberi ikan makan sepanjang ketiadaan mereka. Dah seminggu lebih sebenarnya aktiviti petang setiap hari.

Sekarang ni tak yah la pulun buang daun kering. Diorang dah nak balik nanti bolehlah bersihkan *wink*

Hari ini tak bawak budak2, sebab nak selenggara kolam ikan.

These chaps were really small when they first came. Ada 10 ekor. Kejap je dah besar.

Usually every fortnight when the water change is done (approx 30%), the filter crud is flushed out simultaneously. See the two knobs on the top of the round lid? Just pump these handles when purging out the water to squeeze the filter media inside. Nice and easy. However, the pond was contructed roundabout Eid 2009, so it is about time to do a relatively major maintenance job. Open the whole assembly and clean out the sludge.

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Done!

Okeh...dah selesai getting my hands dirty. Sambil2 menunggu air kolam penuh, mari kita cuba try test lense baru sambil menikmati keindahan alam semula jadi...

Spider Lily ~ Hymenocallis caribaea

Red Button Ginger ~ Costus woodsonii

Pennywort ~ Centella asiatica

  

A Giant Taro flower ~ Alocasia macrorrhiza

Bird's Nest Fern ~ Asplenium nidus

Brown Pots ~ Potus Brownus :P

This little garden is very dear to me since I helped to set it up. There are not too many plants here since I wanted to keep it relatively low maintenance. The ones above are your bog standard tropical garden plants. I love them because they are easy to keep, low maintenance and they instantly enhance the ambience of any garden. 

Ok, just to entertain myself I though it would be nice to try and shoot a different subject haih macam budak-budak!...

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Remember me telling you about the fake Alma? Well, since I could not bear the monstrosity bag in my home, especially with the thought of 500 dollars lost rubbing salt to injury, I had to get rid of it. So I sent it over to mum's ;P

 Here they are; a wannabe and a pop star!

And here she is, Ms Monogram Speedy 25 in all her glory!

The first love is always special, even though you do go on to find greater things.

 I know not everyone is a fan, but I'm letting her get her chance in the limelight this time since lately she is feeling a bit left out. Sorry for the crazy talk. They talk like this in TPF hehehe.

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.Nampaknya hari dah senja. Its time to go home. See you soon, ta ta, good night and sweet dreams. If you read this tomorrow, hope you have a good thursday...

 

 Susah gile kot nak tangkap gambar burung terbang pulang ke sarang, lama aku tunggu tapi tak dapat shot best. So an empty sky will have to suffice ;D

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