Sunday Stills: Water Droplets

Sunday Stills-Water Droplets
Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2011 by Linda

This weeks challenge is for you to take photos of water droplets. Catch one in mid air or on a surface or maybe a splash of them while someone skips a rock across the water. If you’re using a point and shoot put it in the action mode to freeze a splash

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Ed,

It is raining outside and I snapped what I could.

Sorry for being MIA last week, I moved house. Pt Chev is by the sea, and was in the tornado path. I can feel the strong wind.

Photohunt: Covered

October 1: Covered
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Much of the rocks at Pt Chevalier beach are covered with dead oyster shells. A friend once told us that when you harvest the oysters off the rocks, make sure you chisel off the bottom shell. Only then will new oysters be able to cling and grow on the rocks.

The beach too is covered with shells.

FSO: Stairs

September 30 - Stairs. Going up, coming down, from behind.



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I was at a dentist's window in Kluang in a small town in West Malaysia. I saw these buildings, or the back of these buildings. I couldn't believe my eyes. They looked like some of the buildings in my home town Sibu, in Borneo. I remember going to my friend's house along Ramin Way, and we used to go up and down in those narrow spiral stairs in the mid-1960s. We had to do this in secret because it was a three storeys building. They were considered very tall building at that time. My friend's mum said men at the bottom of the stairs could look up and see our knickers. These buildings must have been built at the same time, and never had a new white wash.



I visited a Chinese Temple in Paloh Johor in West Malaysia, and there was some sort of a well, It was fenced off with two stairs running on it's sides. There was no one in the temple I could ask, so I just snapped this photo.




My brother Joseph has a stairs from his jetty down to the lake. The kids swim in the lake or get to their kayak. He doesn't need the stairs when they go on his boat. I don't mean this little boat that my nephew Joshua calls a Tinny. His other 20 foot mustang is parked on the other side of the jetty, and you don't need the stairs.


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Sorry all, I had not been able to access my internet, so I am combining these memes.

I have often seen this family of human powered vehicles. Mum or dad rides the adult bicycle which has a chariot attached to it. Rain or shine I see them. An older child rides his child size bicycle. This exemplifies what we can do for the environment and teaches the children too to love the world. Inside the chariot are two little ones, all bundled up during the wintery rainy days.

I tried often to photograph this family but was in vain when I was driving along the road. yesterday, I eyed them going into the community library and gave me this perfect opportunity.

mickey mouse bush, Dillenia/Wormia suffruticosa

Fellow blogger in the Philippines mentioned a plant they call Mickey Mouse. It is interesting that different regions call different plants by different names. In two much older posts, I posted with passion this Mickey Mouse plant.

Last week, I found my cousins on Facebook. The thing is I have never met them before. I left Borneo before they were born.

Here is a post I wrote when I thought of their Dad, the uncle I loved the most, and he stayed with us for many years before he was married.

Francis, my 6th Uncle used to buy motor bikes like my Grandpa saying, changing bikes like changing shoes.

I was seventeen. One day, out of the blue, Francis asked if I wanted to ride his bike. Boy! did I want to ride his bike. He showed me the ropes and I was off. Our road was a private cul-de-sac. On both sides were long lalang grass, and Mickey Mouse shrub.

I got on the bike with wind blowing in my face and zoomed. I wasn't very steady and before I knew it, I had crashed the bike to a Mickey Mouse bush. I fell and the bike landed on top of me.

Francis asked, if I was hurt.

I replied, No, just a few scratches from the sharp lalang grass. It was my ego which was bruised. I never rode a bike again.

Francis died prematurely at 55. I was in Singapore when the family rang me. When I see the mickey mouse shrubs, I cry a tear for him.

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Sunday stills: On the road

Sunday Stills, the next challenge: On the Road
Sunday Stills on September 11, 2011 by Ed

Pretty straightforward, any type of pics of roads, straight,curvey, bends, paved, gravel, dirt… If you can, get some interesting scenery in your road shots..:-)

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Last night during the Rugby world cup between New Zealand and Japan, there was a minute of silence. We both were affected by earthquakes. I remember when i visited Christchurch, I took lots of photos to document the effects of the earthquake.

These are some of the photos that makes my heart ache.

FSO: T for Tower

A disused old brick chinmey that was the incinerator of Auckland's rubbish.
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A church near to the University of Auckland at Symonds Street,






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These are some of the towers in central Auckland. The most famous is the Sky tower.