New Camera

We (Hubby and I) bought a new camera on Monday 31st August 2009!
Ah hem... actually HE was the one who bought it as HE was the one who paid for it.
It's a Canon PowerShot G10, attractive features include a 5 x wide-angle (28 mm) optical zoom lens and 14.7 Megapixel resolution.
The camera is of no ordinary digital camera, as mentioned in Epinions.com, 'G10 is a compact alternative to a DSLR'.

There are so many functions and settings in G10, as an amateur myself, I really do not how to adjust and do not understand most of the terms used in photography. For examples setting the shutter speed, setting the Aperture, getting the right ISO etc.

I think i should get a 'Photography for Dummies'.

There're much more to learn and i'm really excited in learning more about photography.

These are just a few shots that i took in my room with my bangles. I'm travelling to Siem Reap, Cambodia this Sunday and that's my chance of trying out this new toy.
I'm really looking forward in visiting Angkor Wat as it is one of the Seven Wonders of the world.

Saw a snail in my porch... casually snapped it . . .

Anand, you sure love this .. haha .. geli isit ??

And now . .. I want to intoduce an amazing HDR photographer to those who have not heard about him ... he is Trey Ratcliff.
This Angkor Wat photo was taken by Trey Ratcliff using HDR method.
This is what he wrote in his HDR tutorial -->HDR is short for High Dynamic Range. It is a post-processing of taking either one image or a series of images, combining them, and adjusting the contrast ratios to do things that are virtually impossible with a single aperture and shutter speed.

This is another photo by Trey Ratcliff, he took this during his trip to Kuala Lumpur. He's a photographer with a unique style.


He has a blog where he posts photos taken from all over the world.
www.stuckincustoms.com

R.I.P Coco

Coco should have already reached heaven by now.

This is our good dog, a dog that had lived with us for more than 10 years.

The dog grew with us, she's part of the family.

Unfortunately, she had cancer, the tumor grew aggressively on her leg.

We had to let her go.

Memories of her will remain with us, she left for the better.

愿他下世投胎成人，脱离畜道。

Trip to Haenam (Day 2)

I woke up the next morning at 7.00 am, to catch the earliest monorail ride to the watch tower. This is what i saw while walking to the station... so beautiful... so calming ... i really like Haenam, I like Ddangkeut.

It's amazing that weathering can cause this stone to look like a man's face.

This is the tower, and as you can see, there's a track up to the tower, that's the monorail track.

This is the cute monorail, two cubicles.

View from the monorail cubicle.

Reached finally.

We got off and then walked further until we reach the southest point of the Korea Peninsular !

Here i stand at the end point of the Korea Peninsular.

I had a wonderful breakfast at the end point of Korea Peninsular...

Next destination, Dinosaur Museum !!

The dinosaurs are so real.

Dinosaurs lived here millions of years ago, the evidences are bones, egg fossils, skin fossils, foot prints, tracks etc that are found here.



This is our tour guide, a mobile ''English speaking guide''. It has remote sensors where it can sense where you are standing at, and explain according to the display items that you are looking at.

Real bones of T-Rex

These are real too.

Foot prints of dinosaurs

Track of dinosaurs, they found this in Haenam and made this into an enclosed exhibition hall.

Real skull of an ancient man.

Dinosaur egg fossils

This is bone fossil of a flying ancient bird.

How i wish dinosaurs are still alive... they are really amazing vertebrates.


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Trip to Haenam (Day 1)

I spent 3 days in Haenam last week. The trip was great and i really enjoyed the beautiful scenery of Haenam. Haenam in chinese character is '海南' (Hainan) ! It's the same as the Hainan Island in China, I was surprised when I first saw the word '海南' in the map. '南' is South, and '海' is sea, that makes sense because Haenam is at the South Western part of the Korean Peninsular overlooking the Yellow Sea.

We left Gwangju at 5.00 pm and reached Haenam Bus Terminal at 6.30 pm. After that we took a bus from the terminal to Ddangkeut and put up a night at a motel. The motel is clean, comfortable and most importantly cheap. Ddangkeut means 'end of the land', which is the southest part of the Korea Peninsular. It's a small township with harbour, motels, restaurants and stores.

Surrounded by green green agricultural land.

The bus that we took to Ddangkeut - Kumho Bus Line

Motel that we stayed.
Room (Only 30,000 won for a room this big)

Seafood dinner