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The past week and the days prior to that have been a rather hectic period for me, hence the lack of update in this blog. Work was like mad and even after the madness was over, I still need to run various other errands in relation to my transfer back to Kuala Lumpur.

Today is my last day in Singapore. Tomorrow, I shall be driving north to the Malaysian capital city to report for duty.

I am looking forward to settling down in my new place of living — I still have not figured out where I would rent a house — and to resume blogging, say in two weeks’ time.

In the meantime, rock on baby!

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[Updated with write-up] This is one of the pictures I took on the spur of the moment. I was jaywalking across Orchard Road in Singapore the other day when I noticed red flowers were blooming by the road side. They looked so fresh that I just felt I need to take a quick shot.

People were looking, so I didn’t really get to shoot as much as I want. That is always the problem with doing photography other than the “normal” kind of picture takings. People would look!

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When I see flowers that look something like this, I always know I have found a good subject for macro photography — it is soft but has the potential to be sharp when photographed.

So the next time you are in the backyard or among the bushes, keep an eye on this type of flowers. They can really make macro photography a joy to indulge in.

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This close up photo of a wild flower is taken against the backdrop of flood water back in my unnamed village, which is located in between Kampung Tingkalanon and Kampung Morion in Tandek, in the northern part of Sabah, the Malaysian state on Borneo Island.

Flood water, or for that matter any large bodies of water, can be an excellent background for close up photography. Not only that the watery background can easily be diffused to give a very blurry background for a subject, using water as a backdrop also gives the photo a sense of tranquility.

If done correctly, you could have a picture with which you could almost listen to how “peacefully quiet” the surrounding is.

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The pictures below are among of the many flower shots I’ve taken over the years of shooting in macro. Flowers are relatively “easy” to shoot because unlike insects or other living things, the just stay where they are, giving you ample time to compose your shots.

But even then, this does not mean you can take it for granted. You still need to consider several other issues such as setting the right aperture to get the most desired results.

To put it in simple term, if you want everything about the subject to be in focus, choose the smallest aperture, or largest aperture if you want only certain part of the subject to be in focus.

Okay, I admit it’s not as simple as that — because you still need think about shutter speed and manual focus, if your point-and-shot camera has a setting for manual focus. However, varying the depth of field of a subject, is already a good concept to start experimenting with.

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