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Archive for August, 2007
the escaped con
Aug 24th
Just one of the many expressions of my pug, Charlie . I never get tired of using him as a subject since he is ever willing to be in front of the camera.
He had this look on his face when he saw me carrying Gizmo, a ferret, which he longs to play with but unfortunately we can’t permit him as Charlie might accidentally kill the smaller ferrets (I have two) because at times he plays pretty rough.
Camera: Canon EOS 350D Digital
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 0/2 EV
Flash: Flash fired, auto mode, red-eye reduction
Saffron Prawn Risotto
Aug 22nd
My meal last night, risotto with saffron topped with prawns. A Gordon Ramsay recipe.
for the recipe, you can find it HERE
Still Life
Aug 20th
Reproduced Still Life by my father-in-law. This is one of my favorite works of him which is beautifully displayed in our living room. I love the window reflection, can you see it?
A small piece of the frame showing at the right lower part and father-in-law’s initial “JS” at the right side as well.
F.I.L. never had any formal lesson in painting, he relied solely on his imagination and pictures of what he wanted to paint.
My cute spidey!!
Aug 14th
My second macro ‘model’. I took this photo last Saturday (Aug. 11, ’07 ) and I just couldn’t clean my window because of him, or her. I might need it for the next photo shoot. *LoL!*
It’s as small as a cotton bud’s tip.
don't fly baby, don't!
Aug 13th
….as i whispered to this fly when I was taking shots……..but really this fly was such a tease! Because he’d fly away for a second then come back then fly away again then come back! I think he’s done it about 6 times.
Anyway, I was just testing out my new lens that I got as a birthday present from my husband…and what can I say, except that I love my husband for accepting and supporting my photography hobby..and most of all I love my new sigma macro lens, yihaaaaa!!
Sir William Wallace
Aug 11th
Have you seen the movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson as William Wallace? I found it to be a very very bloody gory movie thus only have watched half of the film. Anyway, here’s a memorial near the place where he was executed in 1305.
London, England
The 23rd August 2005 marks the 700th Anniversary of the execution of the hero of the Scots Wars of Independence, Sir William Wallace, by being hanged, drawn and quartered at Smithfield, London. The site is marked by a memorial on the wall of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield. The Latin couplet was taught to the young Wallace by one of his uncles, the Priest of Dunipace.
A great deal of mythology attaches to Wallace, much quite recent, as a result of the film “Braveheart”, starring and directed by Mel Gibson, though the film has brought much needed attention to the period and its main protagonists. We had, for example, the Battle of Stirling Bridge without a bridge, lowland Scots in kilts, Wallace’s face painted blue and white and much else. Much artistic licence was used to convey the spirit of the times.
The real Wallace was born between 1270 and 1276, originally thought to have been in Elderslie, near Paisley, in Renfrewshire, though there is a more recent view that he was born in Ayrshire. The recent discovery of his seal shows he was the younger son of Alan Wallace of Ayrshire, whose name appears on the Ragman Rolls (Waleys, Aleyn (tenant le Roi du counte de Are)). He was educated by two uncles, both priests, in Latin and French.
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Camera: Sony DSC-W15
Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 10.7 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV
Flash: Flash fired, auto mode
Ben, up close
Aug 7th
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Big Ben is one of London’s best-known landmarks, and looks most spectacular at night when the clock faces are illuminated. You even know when parliament is in session, because a light shines above the clock face.
The four dials of the clock are 23 feet square, the minute hand is 14 feet long and the figures are 2 feet high. Minutely regulated with a stack of coins placed on the huge pendulum, Big Ben is an excellent timekeeper, which has rarely stopped.
The name Big Ben actually refers not to the clock-tower itself, but to the thirteen ton bell hung within. The bell was named after the first commissioner of works, Sir Benjamin Hall.
This bell came originally from the old Palace of Westminster, it was given to the Dean of St. Paul’s by William III. Before returning to Westminster to hang in its present home, it was refashioned in Whitechapel in 1858. The BBC first broadcast the chimes on the 31st December 1923 – there is a microphone in the turret connected to Broadcasting House.
During the second world war in 1941, an incendiary bomb destroyed the Commons chamber of the Houses of Parliament, but the clock tower remained intact and Big Ben continued to keep time and strike away the hours, its unique sound was broadcast to the nation and around the world, a welcome reassurance of hope to all who heard it.
There are even cells within the clock tower where Members of Parliament can be imprisoned for a breach of parliamentary privilege, though this is rare; the last recorded case was in 1880.
The tower is not open to the general public, but those with a “special interest” may arrange a visit to the top of the Clock Tower through their local (UK) MP.
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Camera: Sony DSC-W15
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 23.7 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode
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