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Roodborstje
Feb 2nd
The yearly visitors are back! I mean birds, HUNGRY birds, not ANGRY :P
Every winter my husband buys birdfeeds for these beautiful creatures. Some are migratory, some are local Elvises who aren’t leaving the premise because of the free chow. Premise means our little backyard. My husband hangs the feeds on our pear tree.
As I am not a bird watcher nor like those professionals with loooooooong telescopic lenses, hence the cropped image ha ha! Actually I take photos from inside our home, behind a window where I make myself as small as possible (like that’s ever going to happen at my weight and size he he) so these birds can quietly enjoy the feeds and not be scared of the lady with that strange circular thing on her face that is always pointed at them.
But these darn cuties move so quickly most of the time they’re long been gone before I could press the shutter or I am way too slow.. but I prefer to think the first one I mentioned.
Cute little fellow! (^0^)
Jackson Jekyll (Monster High)
Jan 12th
I finally got a spare moment to quickly take a snapshot or snapshots of some of my newly arrived Monster High dolls, c/o my aunt living in the United States. I told her I was collecting these dolls and sure enough, a collector herself, off she went to the nearest stores and bought all available dolls that I couldn’t find in our local stores. She got excited buying I was close to $300 poor, ha ha ha! But I love them all! So thank you again, tita Jules!
Anyways, Jackson Jekyll was one of the dolls she purchased for me and oh I so love his handsome face!
Why, at my age, am I collecting dolls?
WHY NOT? 
Thesserie is back!
Oct 13th
{ Photo was taken at Siam Paragon Ocean World, Bangkok, Thailand. }
VACATION is OVER!
I’m finally back from my well deserved and really really needed vacation. I actually had two but the last one was with my husband. We were in our favorite vacation destination, Thailand, and we both agreed that this year’s vacation was the best we ever had! 90% of the time we just rested…safe to say that we had our pug’s life while on vacation. We slept, ate, slept and ate. We sure did enjoyed the warmth of the sun eventhough we experienced lots of gray skies and rains. As of this writing parts of Thailand is still under water due to overflowing of rivers. I can understand why people’s spirits are down.
We’re just glad that inspite of rains and floods, our vacation was not (negatively) influenced that much. We got rained on but we took it in stride because come on, warm rain is way better than cold cold rain back here in the Netherlands!
Anyway, I guess I’m back to (regular) blogging, I hope. I took my cameras with me on this trip and I made few photos that I really am excited to share. I had to get used to taking photos I must confess, since my heart wasn’t in photography for many months. I hope I somehow was able to get my ‘mojo’ back.
Well, c yah (all 2 readers of mine) around!
Yey for ducks! no to rats!
Mar 30th
Sign that Spring is here! Beautiful ducks are busy finding partners or already with partners scanning the waters and lands where they can eventually build their nests.
In our area, 90% of the young ducks do not survive as rats and fish get to them before they can even mature.
Sad. Seems like they’re part of the food chain.
party animals
Jun 27th
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Rockin’ Boys!
These two know where and how to party! Up from sunset til sunrise and yet still looking cute and sober.
How do they do that!?!
left: bear from hard rock cafe las vegas, gift from my husband.
right: bearista from starbucks las vegas, gift from an uncle.
photographer: woke up too early and had nothing better to do.
Cherry Lovers
Jun 16th
Take care of your body. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Eat lots of cherry. Drink lots of its juice.
Then perhaps you’ll grow old like them 
It wasn’t til this morning when resizing this photo when I realized (and saw) that prominent white light reflection on the right top side of the cherry…bad reflection! Looks like the cherry was beginning to rot.
Doing another exam today, the last part….looking forward to it
Morning Moon (004)
Jan 4th
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I was hoping to photograph the moon (or blue moon if I was lucky) on New Year’s eve but our skies were just too gray, heavy with snow clouds.
This morning though still very dark outside, I had a glimpse of this shining moon between 7:30-7:45 am. I immediately took out my ‘moon camera‘ [ Canon S5IS which I love to shoot the moon with ] but did not step out of the house (man, it’s chilly outside and still in my pjs!) …so with a window glass between me and the moon, I captured it.
The image was just resized and watermarked, no other editing done.
Also it’s day 4 of Project 2010…hey! not only that I’m keeping up but quite early today!
Droplets (microphotography – 001)
Jan 1st
Few months ago I attempted to try microphotography by using water droplets. I didn’t know exactly what to do but just followed my instinct. I have this wonderful photographer on my Flickr account list of friends and he’s a genius when it comes to microphotography. I love his works!
At first I used marco filters on my sigma 105mm but I wasn’t impressed (by the cheap filters 
) I thought of capturing them really close. But this shot with all 5 roplets satisfied me.
Gotta practise ..gotta practise!
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