Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


May 25, 2007: Night adventures at the Singapore Botanic Garden

Last night, Damselfly organized a group of us to meet at the Singapore Botanic Garden and explore the night life of insects. What a fun time - meeting new people with names I have difficulty remembering - but with practice, I'll get better at this also.

To start - here is Damselfy with her point and shoot with led light - what a way to start the night.

may 25 9349 fly damselfly ring

Me - I rarely use flash - so being mostly on autopilot I took my first photo, by LED light without flast. 1 sec exposure.

may 25 9323 dfly ledlight

But with flash - much better

may 25 9327 dfly flash

A closer view

may 25 9334 dfly

and a different orientation

may 25 9336 dfly close

A different dragonfly - with small depth of field - Note the focus pattern on the wings - the DOF must be less than 1-2 cm.

may 25 9340 dfly dof

An unidentified bug

may 25 9363 bug

The head of said bug

may 25 9370 bug head

and a green grasshopper. Sort of as curious about me as I was about he/she

may 25 9374 green ghopper

Eating dinner or playing "peek-a-boo">

may 25 9384 ghopper dinner

A sleeping frog

may 25 9391 frog

A cockroach with eyes

may 25 9394 croach eyes

A closer view of the eyes

may 25 9396 croach eyes

These little guys build their web by night and eat it at dawn. Similar to Neoscona hentzi from my garden in the US

may 25 9401 araneus side

From the front

may 25 9403 araneus

and sort of hiding

may 25 9405 araneus hiding

Then a spitting spider hiding inside a leaf

may 25 9424 spitting hiding

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