Multiple Exposures

Today is a very windy day.. even our little indoor flower is swaying in the wind.. Haha, not quite. It is a solar powered flower pot I got my wife from Malaysia originally intended for her office. You can just see the solar cell in the middle.

Taken using the built-in mutliple exposures feature of my camera. It is so much fun! Gain was set to auto.

Haven't played with custom time interval yet.. sure to be the next to explore.

Here is a single exposure. I was so lazy I didn't keep the flower from swaying before getting another frame. Thank God that the shutter speed was fast enough to freeze it. The center of the flower (stamen, pistil, etc) looks so much like the yolk of an egg. :)

It reads (on the base), "Flip Flap is a cute flower bud which moves by light. Please grow your Flip Flap in your mind and bloom your own special flower." LOL


Solar Powered Flip Flap Flower Flowerpot -Sourcingmap.com - Watch a funny movie here

Jewelry from Heaven

Yes, jewelry from heaven - the morning dew.

Just as I was getting out (alright, rushing out) of the house to attend church, I saw this beauty in the backyard.

Beauty? Mmm, it is merely a lonely leaf, less than 2cm in length, that has fulfilled its purpose (to collect and process energy, to shade and protect the plant and much more). It is now lying on the concrete drying up and returning to earth. Yeah, I actually thought it is really beautiful that even for a leaf spent that God would dress it so beautifully with dew. What about us - people, we are precious in God's eyes.

Matthew 6, "...do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

...Your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

What about this second photograph? An unwanted plant thus called a weed (or valueless plant growing wild as the dictionary says) in a pot.

I actually thought the leaves look like wings of butterflies, many butterflies, dressed so beautifully with dew again. A truly beautiful moment captured forever! Hope you enjoy them as much as I do. :)

One more thing, they were taken by my 28-200mm G lens, a humble little lens, without AF-S, given by my mother-in-law. It is a lovely little lens.

My new monopod

Here is my newest toy! A Manfrotto 681B Monopod complete with 234RC head (with quick release plate) and 677SC spiked cup feet. Taken a few test shots with it and already loving it because I already can take about 2 stops faster than before. VR is still required or can be beneficial according to Nikon tech support. It will take some practice to learn to use it properly. http://www.outdooreyes.com/photo5.php3 has some good info about using monopod. Please let me know if you know of another good source. Thank you very much in advance.

I haven't decided if I would wrap the metal surface (top section of course) with (black) heat shrink yet. Yep, you read this correctly. I love heat shrink, it gives good protection for the monopod and it doesn't feel as cold also, esp on those really cold days.

Nikon body cap: BF-3A vs BF-1A

Did you know that the front Nikon teleconverter cap (BF-3A) is not the same as the Nikon body cap (BF-1A). It is deeper! It (BF-3A) can act as the body cap but not vice versa. That is, BF-1A doesn't fit Nikon teleconverter. It is because the front element of Nikon teleconverter (1.4x, 1.7x and 2.0x) protrudes out at the front. The good thing is that the front element is a concave lens hence if you try fitting a BF-1A on a Nikon teleconverter, it won't scratch it. To set the two front caps apart, BF-3A is grey colour while BF-1A is the usual black colour.

From now on, if I need a spare or replace a Nikon body cap, I will go straight to a BF-3A. Be careful, most ebayer only sells BF-1A, the normal black front cap.