Still experimenting with the UWA. Our all-glass building was reflecting the trees surrounding it, and from a certain angle, it reflects again on the part of the building that houses the stairwell.
Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category
Day 154: Reflections of Reflections
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Day 153: The Unlikely Pollinator
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The lone yellow flower I took a picture of not long ago is now just one among many. I thought I’d try taking a shot of them again in their abundance.
I was about to stow away my camera when I noticed this fly on one of the flowers. I then tried to get as many pictures as I could.
My friends were standing not far away. When the fly finally flew away after 5 minutes of “click”, “click”, “click”, I looked up and saw that all three were watching me, probably thinking how strange their friend was, who got excited about taking pictures of a fly on a flower.
Day 151: Little White Flowers
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Today’s Memorial Day, and my wife and I just enjoyed the holiday by staying at home (we were still tired from the picnic the day before).
I thought I would have to think hard for my photo for the day, since I wouldn’t be leaving my place today, but I saw that the shrubs in front of our apartment was starting to bloom with white small flowers (that smell nice, by the way).
Day 150: Kayaker
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
It’s the Memorial Day weekend, and we went up to a reservoir for a picnic. Off in the distance, I saw a kayaker on the water. I waited for him to sail by and pressed the shutter release.
Day 147: Cloudcast
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
I had just pulled out of my parking spot and was on my way out of the parking lot when I noticed how the clouds were casing shadows because of the sun hiding behind it. Luckily, the parking lot was almost empty, so I quickly did a U-turn and parked in another parking slot.
I quickly grabbed my camera and realized that I still had my ultra-wide angle lens on, so I ran back to the car and hurriedly changed lenses. In the short amount of time it took to switch to my medium zoom lens (about 30 seconds of digging in my bag and making the actual switch), the shadows had become a lot less dramatic.
I took a shot anyway, and here’s the result.
Day 145: Infinite Tree Barks
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
These tree barks just happened to arrange themselves in this pattern on the pavement. It acted as a conversation starter with my friend, who noticed how they look almost like an infinity symbol. My friend then went on to say how he’s always wondered about the mysterious nature of infinity, and that if you had a sequence on numbers that goes [1, 2, 3, ...] and [10, 20, 30, ...], the sum of the numbers in each set would be infinity, but the sum of [10, 20, 30, ...] would be larger than that of [1, 2, 3, ...]. ‘There’s probably a mathematical way to prove it, but I’ll take his word for it.
I told him that because of that (arguably) fascinating conversation, I had to take a picture of the conversation starter for posterity.
Day 143: Living-Dead (Bug)
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
I saw this bug by my car on the parking lot at sunset. I quickly grabbed my camera from inside my bag and switched to my telephoto and close-up lens.
It was only after about a minute of shooting as furiously as I could (trying to get as much before the bug flew or walked away) did I realize that it was actually a carcass.
Day 142: Timber
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
We went to our friends’ housewarning slash graduation slash barbecue party. And this is Timber, one of our hosts’ friends’ dogs.
I was shooting him as he was gnawing on a bone when my friend said she could make things more interesting. She then proceeded to throw a log section (yes, a log), as if she were playing fetch with him. Timber went crazy with it. The log was almost a foot in diameter, and he was trying to put it in his mouth to carry it. It was quite a spectacle, and everyone understood why his name is “Timber”.
This was a shot during one of his short breaks in between attempts to carry the log in his mouth.
Day 141: Branch Stump
Friday, May 21st, 2010
This is the very same tree in Day 138. This is where one of its branches used to be. I know little about these things, but I’m guessing it’s been a while since the branch was severed because of the amount of bark that’s closed around the cut.
Day 140: Sunset Lamp
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
My wife and I were invited by a very good friend to watch a play (“My Fair Lady”) at a dinner playhouse up north. We’ve never been to a dinner playhouse or watched a play together, so we graciously accepted the invitation.
This was a lamp just outside the theater building. The shot was taken as the sun was going down.