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Light Brown Frog

It has not rained for days and I was watering the plants in my garden during Wednesday lunch break under the hot-burning-12-o’clock sun because the soil was extremely dry. Suddenly, I found something...

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Dracaena Surculosa Seed

Finally, the Dracaena Surculosa in our garden produced seeds.  It took 2 to 3 months for the whole process started from showing its buds to fully-ripen tiny red fruit.  The green fruit will turn red...

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Dragonfly on Leafless Branch

I found this dragonfly when we went jogging last week.  The dragonfly has lost its focus on the photo above, whereas the leafless branch catches more attention.  However, without the dragonfly, the...

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Everything Happens For A Reason – Snail

It was one of those ordinary weekends, a sunny day, a good day to be out and interact with nature.  So, we were in the garden.  Colin was looking out for something to shoot and I was trying to clear...

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Polarizer Effect on Water Lily Leaves

Finally, I am able to attach this polarizing filter to my semi-pro camera, with an adapter. [With Polarizer] [Without Polarizer] Can you see the difference?  The filter helps me to reduce reflection...

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Harvested Mung Bean

After taking care of the plant and waited for 2 months, finally we can start harvesting the mung beans in our garden. Same as other types of beans and peas, mung bean is also come from inside its pod....

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Hairy Mung Bean Leaves

Days ago, I posted the picture of our harvested mung beans, and promised that I will post the entire process of planting mung beans.  I have taken too many photos and still in the process of selecting...

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Mung Bean Life Cycle

We started planting mung beans in mid April, until now 3 months passed and it still keeps on producing mung beans, we only harvest it on weekends, and some have dropped onto the ground. We first...

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Ant on Leave

It is Monday again. Last month until earlier this month, I worked like a bee from sunrise until sunset.  In the coming weeks, I will be working like an ant.  I will start working before the sun rises...

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Hairy Branch

Mung bean was the common thing in our secondary / high school biology class as the experiment subject in the lab sessions. Now, it has become one of my favorite objects to shoot at with my camera....

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Dotted Water Lily Leaves

Luckily I took its photo during noon time, it was gone in the evening when I try to find it again because it has been removed by my mother who also loves gardening. Days later, I found the other...

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Fishbone-Shaped Dried Leaf

We decided to take an unusual route as our jogging path, while we were warming up by walking slowly at the first round, … … … …we found this fishbone-shaped dried leaf.

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The Pond – Part 1 – Frogs

After 3.2 km of non-stop jogging, we stopped to have a rest.  A distance away, there is a small man-made pond in the park.  In the pond, there were frogs.  The one photographed above was one of them....

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The Pond – Part 2 – Frog Metamorph

Hi!  I am a metamorph!  Nice to meet you! Initially, we thought that this was a toad because of its dark colour. However, after we have checked in a fact book about frogs which provides the comparison...

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The Pond – Part 3 – Flowers

The most challenging part in taking a closeup photo of a flower is the control of its background.  I always try to keep the background simple, unless the background tell some stories. It was hard to...

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The Pond – Part 4 – Leaves

These are the new young leaves. This is an old leaf. This is a sick leaf. In our human life, we are also facing the same phases. 1.  We were born. 2.  We get older and older (this process never stops,...

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Microscopic Snail

This is the smallest snail I have ever seen. I asked SiewPeng what the adjective which is “smaller than tiny” is, she said “microscopic“.  Yes!  This snail is really microscopic and it is less than 2...

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Brown Frog with Blue Eyes

Have you seen this species of frog before?  We have had a few acquaintances with frogs lately.  This little fellow was found in the garden by Colin. According to Colin, it stayed really still for the...

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Lin Je Kong Temple, Pangkor – Part 1

We were told by the pink taxi driver that there is a temple at the far end of the road.  We walked quite a distance (at least few hundred meters along the road and through part of the beach) and...

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Lin Je Kong Temple, Pangkor – Part 2

I found a small “GuanYin” statue in the temple’s garden. The yellow flag with red borders. And a incense burner which is roofed. We walked up the hill and found this gourd-shaped big red pot.  It is...

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