I prefer to write using fountain pen. I don’t know why, but I can keep to a fountain pen until they broke down and never lost it.

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Close up picture of jigsaw puzzle, inspired by a visitor on my Flickr page.

Hey, if you have photographed close-up shots puzzles before, I’m interested to see them.

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It just occurred to me that perhaps I could take a brilliant picture — at least in terms of colours — from dry leaves and fabric leftovers.

I’m quite pleased with the result although a more experienced photographer would have taken a better picture.

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This barb wire perimeter fence is to keep the enemy away — in this case, the water buffalo herd. The free-ranging cattle can really wreak havoc to paddy plant if, by any chance, they manage to encroach into paddy field.

They can eat* graze a whole one hectare of paddy in one night, giving farmers their worst nightmare.

I took this picture many months ago at my old folks paddy field back in Sabah on the northern part of Borneo. When I was small, I used to help my parents tend padi fields. I was once a farmer — and still is, in essence and spirit.

*The word eat is used here until I remember the correct word to describe the act of cattle eating grass.

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Just one of those shots I play around with when I am bored, when I have nothing else to shoot.

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“The Flying Lady”, which has been adorning the hood of Rolls-Royce cars for almost a century now, is one of the most exotic, if not the most exotic, car mascots in the world.

The silver adornment, also known as The Spirit of Ecstasy, is the creation of sculptor Charles Robinson Sykes and modelled after a real woman of bewitching beauty, Eleanor Valesco Thornton.

Eleanor Thornton, the commoner who lived during the tail-end of Victorian-era England, had fallen in love with a noble, Lord John Walter Edward-Scott-Montagu, who fell in love with her equally as much.

Their relationship — Eleanor Thornton was Lord Montagu’s secretary — went on secretly for over a decade.

To cut the story short, Lord Montagu ordered Sykes, a sculptor, to create a special mascot for his Silver Ghost Rolls-Royce — a figurine depicting a young woman and Eleanor Thornton was chosen as the model. Lord Montagu put the figurine on top of the car’s radiator hood.

But this was not to be the one shown here. Lord Montagu later commissioned Sykes to create another mascot after the earlier one become so fashionable that others had also adorned their cars with mascots, some vulgar.

Then the Spirit of Ecstasy was created and it had since become the official mascot for Rolls-Royce cars.

Blogger’s note: This article is written based on information from “The Spirit of Ecstasy“. Picture taken by yours truly in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah on Borneo Island at the 2004 Borneo Rolls-Royce tour.

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Like I said recently, I’m running out of nature macro pictures. I don’t have a backyard full of grass and shrubs to photograph so I would have to challenge myself a bit by focusing on objects in the house.

This is a lens ring of my old PowerShot G6 camera. Digital Photography Review, arguably the most comprehensive camera review website, calls it a bayonet-style lens ring, which you need to remove before you attach the LA-DC58B lens conversion adapter to mount macro, wide or telephoto lenses.

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A visitor in this blog recently asked me about the Exif statistics of some of my pictures. I guess Exif stats are important and some would want to see it.

Here are the properties, taken from my Flickr site, for this picture:

Orientation: Horizontal (normal)
X-Resolution: 180 dpi
Y-Resolution: 180 dpi
Date and Time: 2007:12:28 11:46:04
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