Posts in ‘2009’

A beautiful honeycomb, the nest of honeybees (likeliest candidate Apis dorsata), measuring 61cm at its widest and 41cm across – and that is by no means the full size of the nest since parts of it have been visibly broken off. It smells of honey… pure, sweet honey, although all its cells are clean. [...]

» 23-30 Dec ‘09: Kyushu, Japan

The advantage to society of energetic intellectual activity is that it offers society self-awareness, wakefulness and clarity, inspiration and new ideas, and intelligence in debate and action. A sluggard community which never asks questions or inspects the world around it with a bright eye, and which never tries out different ways of understanding its circumstances, [...]

Susan Sontag: “To photograph is to confer importance”.
If I could, I’d just shoot everything I come across.
Failing which, I suppose these would have to do. Pickings from December so far –
‘Diego’ the mantis nymph, an early Christmas pressie from a colleague; and a female rhino beetle (both were photographed in a [...]

Keep track of updates via Flickr. It is by far where I’m most virtually active these days.

In hindsight, I wonder how I managed to squeeze in all these other activities while working way overtime in preparation for an overseas conference…
All hyped up from the first recent re-discovery of the bioluminescent mushrooms, we organised a trip for colleagues and friends:

Then came the night of the Leonid meteor showers last Wednesday. [...]

I’d never have considered myself a mushroom hunter (more of a mushroom eater), but ever since I photographed that lone glowing ’shroom, I was nearing the point of a healthy obsession whenever I stepped onto that trail.
Last night, for once in many visits, we was not disappointed. The week’s downpours were not in vain. [...]