Last Update for 2013

Okay, for the most part of 2013, my camera and lenses have been sitting idly in the box. And as the year is about to pass, I took them out again. This time the subject was plants.

 I started off with some bright red flowers:

Then I went for green leaves:

And I spotted this:

Then I tried to photograph bamboo leaves--a subject not as easy as I thought. The leaves grow in all directions and in close cluster, I went from one bamboo tree to another until I found one with leaves that were not messy:

And finally, some more red flowers:

Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax 50 Macro

Happy 2014.

So it's December already...

So it's December already, and I start seeing decorations here and there. Although birds remain my favorite photography subject, in this entry I'd post something else:

Saw this at a local park, just to mark the occasion.

And here's a bird, Alexander Parakeet.