This was my first time looking at a big rain lily.

Hover to see the image before I had it processed. Which do you prefer?

Like I had mentioned last week, I’m very excited to present you yet another expressive cloud…this one even jumps!

Tada!!

Hover to see its unprocessed condition.

View my previous cloud shots h e r e.

I can’t get over it that in such a short time after witnessing a heart cloud that I should come face to face with 2 very expressive (I much prefer this word than pareidolic) clouds once again.

Last Friday, I noticed this cloud.

Other than already being stunning + unusual, it seems to outline a face with a long nose and a wide-open mouth, along the left side of the cloud, so I quickly took a snap through our car windscreen. When I looked closer at the picture later, I could actually make up not 1 but 2 faces, at each end of the cloud. The other face lies on the right. It shows off as a letter E which traces the side view of a man with a protruding forehead who has a big nose and a long chin. Do you see something else? Let me know!

For this shot, I had intensified the blues and the whites. Hover over to see its before.

Yesterday I encountered something else which I’ll reserve for next week. It’s a sea animal!

While browsing through entries for this year’s photo book competition at Blurb, I was attracted to these 3 books because I like their originality.

893 Magazine – The Yakuza in Tokyo by Anton Kusters tells the story of two brothers who gained unprecedented access to the Yakuza that controls the heart of Shinjuku in Tokyo.

Orthodox Jewish Life by Andrew Aitchison shows an honest reflection of a community that is often perceived to live in a closed and insular world. For the past 5 years Andrew has been living and working amongst the Orthodox Jewish Community of Stamford Hill, London.

Thrownology by Matt Flores is imaginative and fun. Inspired by Philippe Halsman’s Jumpology photography series, the images photographically represent various sayings, idioms, puns, and other turns of phrase based on the idiosyncracies of the English language.

You know something? I’m in the mist of toiling to get my own Blurb book out!

I like it when my subject is found in a mess-produced situation. Like this bushy Episcia cupreata (aka flame violet, carpet plant) along Orchard Road.

Again I meddled with this image to test out my PS action. Hover to see the before.

Yippie!

Sometime ago while we were on the road, I finally saw for the first time that “love is in the air”! If only the red lights had cooperated my hands would have stabilised a little.

I fiddled with texture over this shot. Hover to view its original condition. Which one do you like? I like them both.

Another batch of unique cameras in a class of its own…mirror-less, compact and with nice bodies. :)

I just luv the leather patch on the Pen!

Creative photography by Italian photographer Fulvio Bonavia, from his book A Matter of Taste.

If it hadn’t been that one blob of bright yellow, I’d have missed snapping this tiny sea daisy (aka Wedelia biflora) that was flourishing “weedily” between wall and fence along Kelantan Lane.

Later that day I pampered this picture with a spa treatment using my PS action. Would you like to see a before and after look? Hover over the image to view its original condition.

[p.s. Along Kelantan Lane is a coffeeshop that houses several stalls famous for its laksa, chicken rice and bak kut teh.]

Cameras in a class of its own…DSLR-like qualities minus the bulkiness; the new Sony NEX 5 and Samsung NX10.

I got to play with them both in a shop last weekend, and the results I saw were pretty impressive. I’m kind of sold!