May 16, 2008 By Jaxon S Less than 2mm. That is the size of these tiny ants, too small to capture the their details, even with a macro lens.
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May 15, 2008 By Jaxon S 
Snail macro photography. Slow moving or not, snails are quite a difficult subject to photograph, especially while they are perching on loose leaves. Like this little one here. But as the saying goes, time and patience will bring the snail to Jerusalem.
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May 13, 2008 By Jaxon S The Singapore Night Safari used to display animal lanterns (picture below) in its compound. Several months ago, I went there to find they have had been removed.
Which is a pity because they are quite spectacular during night time.
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May 10, 2008 By Jaxon S Mine is just medium fast, between 300-350 words per minute. But with the help of reading accelerator, I can do faster.
This is the dial on the accelerator which you can adjust to suit your reading speed.
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May 7, 2008 By Jaxon S I was driving the other day when I almost run over a kitten by the roadside. Alone, dirty and terrified, the kitten scurried back into the bushes.
I had wanted to continue with the journey but the kids wouldn’t allow, not before I wormed my way into the bushes and picked up the kitten.
This picture is taken a week after the rescue.
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May 4, 2008 By Jaxon S When I was small dragonfly was my favourite insect. The other was ant. Somehow I got the idea that the inventor of helicopter got their inspirations from observing a dragonfly.
But I had not been kind to both of my favourite insects. For instance, I used to attach strings to dragonflies to make dragonfly kites.
I would run into the open field with my hand holding the other end of the strings and the dragonflies, in their attempt to break free, would flutter their wings and float in the air.
If my parents found out however, they would scold me and told me to respect all living things and not to harm them.
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April 26, 2008 By Jaxon S 
DP Review says: Depth of field (DOF) is a term which refers to the areas of the photograph both in front and behind the main focus point which remain “sharp” (in focus).
Depth of field is affected by the aperture, subject distance, focal length, and film or sensor format. A larger aperture (smaller f-number, e.g. f/2) has a shallow depth of field. Anything behind or in front of the main focus point will appear blurred.
A smaller aperture (larger f-number, e.g. f/11) has a greater depth of field. Objects within a certain range behind or in front of the main focus point will also appear sharp. [Source: Digital Photography Review]
Depth too narrow
The problem with taking macro shots with point-and-shoot cameras is that the depth of field is often too narrow that only a very small portion of an image will appear sharp.
At times you’d get frustrated because of the lack of f values for you to manipulate.
Aperture-priority and manual setting
So the next time you buy a point-and-shoot camera, make sure it has an aperture-priority setting or better still, a manual setting which will allow you some room to play with this thing called the depth of field.
If you already have a point-and-shoot camera with these features, be happy now that you can have some freedom to make a difference for each of your shots.
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April 22, 2008 By Jaxon S This is Sue, the most complete remains of a T-Rex ever discovered so far. The original specimen is being displayed at The Field Museum in the US.
The specimen being displayed here is a cast from the original specimen. Sue was found in New Jersey in 1990.
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April 19, 2008 By Jaxon S I was all ooh and aah when I review the image sample of Nikon’s high end professional DSLR camera, the D3. I’ve never seen such a clean image at ISO 6400. My goodness, where did all the grains go?
Might as well Canon — which used to win hands down in the high ISO performance — throw in the towel now.
Nikon D3 has just up the ante by over 2o,000 notch with its ability to shoot images from ISO 100 to a mind-boggling ISO 25,600.
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