树荫 (The Shade)

烈日当空，母亲和妻儿们在有机农场里走得有点累时，这棵雄壮的大树出现在小路的尽头，正好让走累的人们停下来歇息。

大树枝叶茂盛，树荫下吹着徐徐自然凉风，比起吹冷气还要舒服。

就在亲戚和孩子们正在纳凉时，我也顺手用广角镜拍下大树的英姿。

前人种树，后人遮荫是个高尚的理念。希望我们在欣赏大自然的同时，能够多种植些花草树木以绿化环境。

Instead of the organic fruits and vegetables, I continued to be attracted to shoot other subjects such as the pot plants (in previous post) and the big tree in this post.

This tree, at the end of one of the small roads, provided the much-needed shade for the elderly and the younger kids who are tired after walking in the spacious organic farm park.

The 10mm ultra-wide angle really is a fun angle for shooting the tree. I was actually standing just below the tree yet almost the whole tree could be captured with the wooden house (used for growing mushroom) and the attap-roofed path under it. This would not be possible with my 50mm lens that I also brought along with me on that day.

Another view inside the organic farm park.

小小盆栽 (Cute Pot Plants)

前几个星期去了居銮诚兴有机农场一趟。农场以种植龙珠果和有机蔬菜出名，但我却被农场里的小小盆栽所吸引。

拍摄这些小盆栽，50mm镜头最适合了。浅浅的景深不但能取得舒服的虚幻背景（或前景），也因此而突出了可爱青翠的小小盆栽。

除了充满生气的绿芽，制造花盆师傅的巧手创意与心思也让这些盆栽更有生气。

I visited an organic farm park in Kluang recently. Instead of the vegetables and dragon fruits that the farm is famous for, I was attracted by the cute pots of plant that really cheer up my mood for that day.

To shoot these little plants, the 50mm lens is an ideal lens for sharp subjects and blurry background (or foreground) with the shallow depth of field that it is capable of.

Besides the green and refreshing feel of the little plants, some creative touch of the pots maker really adds to the interestingness of the pot plants.

可人儿 2 （Three Cuties 2）

上回在大哥家里发现三位可人儿，逐渐淡忘之余，却在上周末于临近公园偶遇另三位可人儿。

第一位名叫小蝶的可人儿美如天仙，非常健谈。她在公园里练习芭蕾舞。阿娜多姿的舞步让人有点动心。我拿出相机，她也不避忌的让我拍个不亦乐乎。

第二位可人儿有点凶巴巴，虎皮做的衣裳配上她冷漠的脸孔让她看上去异常冷艳。我不敢冒冒然惊动她，趁她赏花时快速的拍摄下她的倩影。

第三位可人儿娇小玲珑，健美但柔滑的皮肤让人很想捏一把。我耐心的等候她慢跑及做完晨操后，才为她拍摄了几张近照留念。

 
Not too long ago when I visited my elder brother in my hometown, I found three cuties living in his garden and I managed to capture the images of them.

Recently when I loitered around in the playground opposite my house, to my surprise I found another three cuties equally if not more sexy and beautiful than the ones in my brother’s garden.

I chatted with the first cutie and found that she has a beautiful name called Lesser Grass Blue. She was extremely friendly to me and allowed me to spend time taking her gorgeous look as she danced around in the playground.

The second cutie had a much meaner look and wore a dress with tiger strips on her slim body. I did not chat much with her but still managed to capture a few images of her cool but graceful movement around the wild flowers.

The third cutie had small and nice figure, look quiet but her movement was very swift. Her tanned and shiny complexion, together with her sweet smile were so charming that it made me stuck there, not feeling like going away. Finally I found an opportunity to shoot a portrait of her for my album/collection.

黎明摄影 (Dawn Photography)

任何活动都需要不断尝试学习，摄影也不例外。最近尝试了黎明时分摄影的效果，和各位分享。
以上四张相片都是在天刚破晓时拍摄的。前两张是于七时之前拍摄，后两张则是在七时之后所拍摄。不同之处在于海和天的颜色从灰黑转成为蓝色。

因为黎明时分光线不足，因此可以用慢快门增加曝光，也取得水面柔滑的效果。

亲身体验各种摄影的窍门和效果，是人生一大乐趣之一。。。

Not so long ago, we had a family trip to Resort World Sentosa. I managed to experiment on some photography from the Sentosa Boardwalk in the dawn hours before my family members even got up of bed.

The first two photos were shot before 7am,whereas the last two images were captured after 7am. The easily noticeable difference is the color of the sea and sky that turns from grayish to bluish.

Due to the limited brightness, I used a tripod with lowest ISO, small aperture to obtain long exposure, creating the water surface that looks silky and smooth as compared with shots taken with normal exposure.

The process of learning never ends and this is one of the most interesting things in life.....

超广角镜 （Ultra-wide Lens）

自从购买了佳能的超广角镜后，已经在不同地方试用了它的性能。

和微距摄影完全相反，广角镜让摄影者将景色从前到后都清楚地摄入相机里，因此非常适合一望无际的辽阔景色。

在此分享几张近期拍摄的作品，也可当着是我摄影学习路程中的一些纪录。

前两张是于新山金海湾日落之后的景色，后两张则是住家附近公园黄昏时分的醉人景象。只要时间相差区区三十分钟，拍出来的景象效果就会非常不同。

时常在杂志上，网上和友人的作品中欣赏到一些摄人心魂的优美摄影作品，是我学习摄影的一大动力。。。

The fun of playing with a DSLR camera is the wide choices of lenses available for different effects and results.

After playing with the macro lens for sometime, where close-up details of photogenic bugs and flowers not usually noticeable with our naked eyes could be presented for our viewing pleasure, coupled with the nicely blurred background achieved with wide aperture setting and the short focal length, an ultra-wide angle lens provides a totally opposite and fresh perspective with its all clear and wide view of the scene in front of the photographer.

I love macro photography where I can spend the whole morning in my neighborhood garden capturing subjects ranging from bugs, plants, to dews and corroded nails etc., but a new ultra-wide angle lens makes me yearning to go out to places where I can capture landscape shots with a much wider angle of view. I guess I will end up travelling to more places with this lens.

I wish to share a few recent photographs taken with my Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens. The first two are the blue hour shots taken at Danga Bay, Johor Bahru, while the last two are the golden hour shots taken at a public park near my residence.

单反镜头 (DSLR Lenses)

四眼的我，自从爱上单反相机后不到两年时间，竟然前后为相机物色了四副镜头。单反相机好玩的原因之一是不同的镜头能拍出不同的效果，让摄影者沉醉其中。

Ever since I bought my first DSLR camera, in less than two years, I have added four lenses so far. I think one of the main advantages of DSLR camera is its ability to use different types of lenses for different photographic needs.

佳能 EF 100mm f/2.8L 微距镜头除了能拍微距，也能拍摄人像。

Canon EF 100mm f.2.8L macro lens is my favorite for macro photography, but is equally wonderful for portrait.

佳能 EF 50mm f/1.8 II 镜头是轻巧及经济实用的标准镜头，除了人像，也适合拍摄静物。

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II standard lens is a lightweight and cheap lens but yield superb image quality. I like to use it for portrait and still object photography.

佳能 EF-S 10-22mm F/3.5-4.5超广角变焦镜头能拍出视觉有异于标准镜头效果，相当有趣。

Canon EF-S 10-22mm F/3.5-4.5 ultra-wide lens is a crazy lens for landscape as well as to produce images with exaggerated perspective. Everything looks longer and wider with this lens.

Sigma 18-250mm 13.8倍变焦镜头让拥有者一镜走天涯，拍出来的品质也不赖。

Sigma 18-250mm lens has a generous zoom range of 13.8 times. This is a good general purpose walk-around lens.

若经济情况允许，我希望能在未来添加一枝长镜头。

As long as I can afford, I wish to add a super-telephoto lens in the future.

一日一生 （One-Day Life）

生命是神奇的，却又一点也不神奇。

生命好比一颗铁螺栓，铁螺栓的一生从制作，服务直到腐蚀被更换的过程，就像我们的一生可以分成学习阶段，服务或工作阶段，以及退休阶段直到终老。

也许我们能活到七十，八十或九十岁。许多人一生奋斗储蓄，退休后却顽疾缠身，没能如愿享受退休后的生活。有些人如愿储到可观积蓄，快活旅游享受了一段日子，却又顿觉人生失去目标而郁郁寡欢。

几天前收到友人一封电邮，提到一日一生的观念。这概念说到没人能知晓自己能活到几岁，因此建议把每一天都当成一生来生活，每一天都要学习新事物，每一天也要服务社会做些有意义的事，每一天也留点时间享乐。 这样，就算明天就走也不会有太大遗憾。

Life is a miracle, yet it is so ordinary and fragile.

Life is just like a set of bolt and nut. The lifespan of a pair of bolt and may be a few weeks, a few months or a few years depending on the environment. Likewise, our life expectancy may be seventy, eighty or ninety years depending on our lifestyle and other factors.

I read an article a few days ago, in the article the writer suggests that we should live each day as though we only have a days’ life. Hence every day we should spend some time acquiring new knowledge, spend some time contributing to the society and also set aside some time for things that we love to do.

This concept of living our life seems to make sense, let’s share it with our friends…