When everything else fails — or when you think you have photographed everything — look under the shrubs.

That’s what I do when I go for an outing, when I thought there was nothing more to photograph and it was time to go home.

But this doesn’t mean you have to deliberately rummaged into the shrubs or turn stones over just to have a look what was beneath them so that we can take their pictures. That would be counter-productive.

I hold the view that as a photographer — taking pictures of nature at their natural setting, or any other subjects for that matter — it is our job to try and minimise disturbance to the subjects which have given us the pictures.

Here’s an example of life under the shrubs. I took this last week at the Memorial Park, Singapore, just opposite Swissotel The Stamford, the tallest hotel in Southeast Asia.

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