Tuesday, November 15, 2005
[678] Of wildflowers by the road
I love flowers but I don't quite go ga-ga (and wah piang! Boy, that exclamation left a deep impression on me) like girls do. Why do I like them? It's just they're part of green behavior kind of stuff. By they, I mean, the flowers, of course. Live flowers, not dead fresh flowers to be precise - I have a slight irritation with people that love to pick flowers. Hey, I'm a mad treehugger. What do you expect?

I paid Malacca a visit yesterday. While I was there, I noticed a few species of wildflowers which I can't name. They grow near some bushes by some road near the town of Tampin.

I also learned that the Malaysian Prime Minister is due to visit that part of Malacca today (Alor Gajah if you're wondering) while the Durbar is set to be held in the state later this year. There's a better article about the Durbar at Malay Wikipedia. Maybe I'll transwiki it later.

Back to the topic:

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The focus is off by noticeable degree. In fact, I had no choice since my camera is unable to focus properly while the object is too close to the lense - yet, another reason why should get a new cam. The reason that I had wanted to get the object as close as possible to camera is, I wanted to fill the photo with the four clusters.

Much to my surprise, it was quite hard to manage. So, I settled with what I think the next best thing - focusing on the second nearest cluster of flowers and then fill available space with the nearest cluster.

Finally, could somebody identify the flower? Each cluster is as large as one's thumb. My thumb anyway.

And yeah, Buck the Fuckeyes!

p/s - added a fellow Malaysian Wolverine into my blogroll. Poke her!

pp/s - Roni, one of the guys that I used to play hockey with at Michigan, writes songs!

ppp/s - Australia made it to the 2006 World Cup. What's next? Penn State winning the Big Ten title? Wait a minute...

p4/s - Malaysia and Singapore might squabble like kids, but Mexico and Venezuela have refined the benchmark.
23:59 EST | (5) Comments

Hey, nice framing. To solve your focusing problem, you could have taken the picture further from the subject and crop to the desire frame later. ;)

BTW, did you receive my email with the edited malaylamp? I’ve sent it quite a while back and have not heard from you. So just checking.

By dreamstate, at 16 November, 2005 06:06  


hey,

yeah, i got it alright. thanks for the edit. sorry for not replying back though. Must have slipped off my mind.

By __earth, at 16 November, 2005 10:29  


No problem. :D

How do you like the edit though?

By dreamstate, at 16 November, 2005 13:20  


lol, that was quiet philosophical that part about flowers

By boris , at 16 November, 2005 15:48  


lol! yeah, too many words for such simple thing. =)

dreamstate: the edit does lighten up the pix.

By __earth, at 17 November, 2005 08:41  


                   
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