A beautiful honeycomb, the nest of honeybees (likeliest candidate Apis dorsata), measuring 61cm at its widest and 41cm across – and that is by no means the full size of the nest since parts of it have been visibly broken off. It smells of honey… pure, sweet honey, although all its cells are clean. [...]
Posts in ‘2009’
Keeping progress alive
The advantage to society of energetic intellectual activity is that it offers society self-awareness, wakefulness and clarity, inspiration and new ideas, and intelligence in debate and action. A sluggard community which never asks questions or inspects the world around it with a bright eye, and which never tries out different ways of understanding its circumstances, [...]
Almost (at least) a photo a day
Susan Sontag: “To photograph is to confer importance”.
If I could, I’d just shoot everything I come across.
Failing which, I suppose these would have to do. Pickings from December so far -
‘Diego’ the mantis nymph, an early Christmas pressie from a colleague; and a female rhino beetle (both were photographed in a captive environment):
A mangrove [...]
In times of postlessness and wordlessness
Keep track of updates via Flickr. It is by far where I’m most virtually active these days.
November work and walks
In hindsight, I wonder how I managed to squeeze in all these other activities while working way overtime in preparation for an overseas conference…
All hyped up from the first recent re-discovery of the bioluminescent mushrooms, we organised a trip for colleagues and friends:
Then came the night of the Leonid meteor showers last Wednesday. We first [...]
Magical mushrooms
I’d never have considered myself a mushroom hunter (more of a mushroom eater), but ever since I photographed that lone glowing ’shroom, I was nearing the point of a healthy obsession whenever I stepped onto that trail.
Last night, for once in many visits, we was not disappointed. The week’s downpours were not in vain.
They were [...]
"Why clever people believe stupid things"
Talking about backmasking, about the Freemasons, about conspiracy theories, about puddles of water, about intelligence, about the media, about hoaxes, about intentions, about politics, about assumptions…
As human beings, we have an innate ability to make something out of nothing. We see shapes in the clouds, and a man in the moon; we take a perfectly [...]
Paradise preserved
At 62.5cm, this paradise tree snake still had almost double its body length to grow. A victim of grass-cutting, it was found right outside the office and brought in by a colleague. I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon injecting and fixing it in formalin. It will join the ranks of my spirited collection [...]
