Nothing has changed; but our mind contemplates the matter in a different light and sees it from another aspect: for everything has many angles and many different sheens. Thoughts of kinship, old acquaintanceships, and affections suddenly seize our minds and stir them each according to their worth: but the change is so sudden that it [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
Gentling the D300
After two-and-a-half years later of journeying with my D200… it’s time to lay it to rest in the dry box. Not that the D200 was proving inadequate; I’d very gladly stick to it till its shutter dies, but its sensor had gone awry and it’d cost more than a third the price of a new [...]
In my hand
I held the most remarkable of all living things, a creature of astounding abilities that elude our understanding, of extraordinary, even bizarre senses, of stamina and endurance far surpassing anything else in the animal world. Yet my captive measured a mere five inches in length and weighed less than half an ounce. I held that [...]
They killed them!
Sprayed with insecticide by SBG staff, apparently. Some were still twitching by the time I got on scene.
They were there on that same spot on the tree (a Terminalia ivorensis) for a week, at least. I counted over 160 of them earlier this week, and collected 6 of them, 4 of which have pupated and [...]
Recession may be the jolt
According to the Archbishop of Westminster, the economic downturn could be the very thing that brings us to our senses. “It’s the end of a certain kind of selfish capitalism,” Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said. “This particular recession is a moment – a kairos – when we have to reflect as a country on what are [...]
I ssspy
Curious onlookers would approach me, where I was standing by the main bridge with my camera pointed at the bushes, asking what I was shooting. I’d point out the Shore Pit Viper coiled up between the branches, adding a descriptive sentence or two about the reptile.
“How do you know it’s a viper?” a little girl [...]
Handfuls of feathers
So tired! Pre-dawn waking mornings and an overnighter at Pulau Ubin. I wouldn’t miss this for the world… there’s so much to learn, about bird-ringing, bird behaviour, and everything about the avian types from the real experts. Something I wished to have been able to do since years ago, but never had the chance to. [...]
Can't tell heads from butts
Keep seeing massive clumps of various sorts of hairy/tufty/spikey/furry moth caterpillars on tree trunks lately…
Ryester
I was out of the office most of this week at a three-day workshop, and so couldn’t keep a motherly eye on the two reptilian eggs of an unknown species that were collected from a coastal forest in mid-December last year. On second thoughts, I should’ve brought them home, like I usually do.
When I returned [...]
Technology conspires
First it was PhotoShop, which for some reason refused to start up and always froze at the loading screen.
Then it was my blog, when the image upload function malfunctioned. And the book reading list plugin also started giving me errors.
Then my beloved D200 decided it had enough (it was perhaps getting jealous that I had [...]
