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January 13, 2007: The curiosity of many things small

Today the weather was so-so. Maybe rain, maybe drizzle, maybe nothing - so I ventured out as far as the Queenstown MRT station - and slightly beyone. Well the virtue of sticking close to home is that you don't know what you'll find. And in this case, walking past Fair Price - there were some bushes of these orange flowering things - and there was a bee. The goal was to practice focusing. I read somewhere that it was useful to use manual focus, and then take a sequence of photos so that maybe one was focused as an old man stands steady - but actually moves about quite a bit.
Here is the bee

jan 13 3847 bee

jan 13 3852 bee

jan 13 3854 bee

The bee and an ant

jan 13 3856 bee ant

jan 13 3858 bee

jan 13 3859 bee front

jan 13 3860 bee head

jan 13 3861 bee head

jan 13 3867 bee ant

A pink flower

jan 13 3876 pink flower

Further studies of a bee

jan 13 3885 bee all

jan 13 3889 bee

jan 13 3894 bee all

jan 13 3896 bee

jan 13 3903 bee all

jan 13 3906 bee side

jan 13 3911 bee face

jan 13 3924 bee dorsal

A purple flower

jan 13 3968 purple

A butterfly hanging upside down - and hiding

jan 13 4001 butterfly grass

jan 13 4007 butterfly grass

Another flower

jan 13 4011 flower

An ant

jan 13 4049 ant

This is for Valentin Krinsky - the spiral world of inside a banana leaf

jan 13 4052 inside banana leaf

I thought this was a red ant

jan 13 4056 red ant

But was wrong - after getting home, I found this was a spider. So the lesson learned from today - is that maybe this type of spide likes to build web amongst the leaf stuff

jan 13 4060 spider plant

jan 13 4077 spider plant

jan 13 4086 spider plant

Here is a pretty good view of spider and web

jan 13 4090 spider plant full

jan 13 4090 spider plant

jan 13 4092 spider plant cropped

jan 13 4092 spider plant

And then a small small grasshopper - just chillin' on a leaf of grass

jan 13 4110 grasshopper

jan 13 4120 grasshopper

jan 13 4137 grasshopper

This guy - just never could get a good view of

jan 13 4169 brown grasshopper

But the butterfly - without words

jan 13 4189 butterfly

jan 13 4197 butterfly

jan 13 4206 butterfly

jan 13 4210 butterfly

and a pink flower

jan 13 4224 pink flower

jan 13 4225 pink flower

and two ants

jan 13 4236 two ants

and a lonely ant

jan 13 4243 lone guy

jan 13 4258 ant

and ants racing around this orange plant thing (Heliconia)

jan 13 4265 ant orange

another Heliconia that must have something yummy for these ants

jan 13 4268 ant orange

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