New Found - a scary looking wasp

a big wasp ~2-2.5inch with the long and scary tail... it look like Ichneumon but need confirmation



even found it summer time, it move slow ...manage to capture few angle of this scary looking wasp ...






and for full view .. no chance to change len .. so use stitch method again




more wasp

Landscape Spot - Kuala Abang, Terengganu

sunrise is not common for me especially seascape sunrise, as I stay @west coast of Malaysia. I had plan east coast to look for sunrise spot since early of the year 2010 .. but I was too busy to work out one ....

Last weekend, I had a chance to stay there 3d 2 nights... (a wonderful weekend I had), finally I can spent my time slowly to look for spots for the days and future. the time pass fast so I manage to spend time for
Kuantan -> Kemasik --> Kuala Abang --> Pantai Chendering --> Kuala Terengganu --> Kuala Abang --> Paka .... (and some beaches in between....)

back to the days... I was lucky , managed to
i. 2 sunrise
ii. 1 beautiful sunset @ Floating Mosque
iii. beautiful night sky .. but too tired to have star trail


for this I am sharing a place call Kuala Abang, it locate ~1.5 hour (normal speed) drive from Kuantan, Pahang. this place full with beaches, homestay, inn , hotel..... so no worry for the accommodation. even you can't find one, it is not far to Kemasik or Kuala Terengganu.

I spend one of the morning near (few steps away) Kuala Abang Guest House, it have a beautiful Island opposite , big rocks near by , coconut tree ...... sunrise for sure (if you lucky enough) .



few thing to remember ...
i. not much food variety ....and have to drive out to look for
ii. beaches are dangerous to swim ...
iii. many sharp rock ..


some fisherman and cleaner wil pass by the sea in the morning ...



will go again for sure ..........................

New Found - a Orange Long-horned beetle

a cute and beautiful beetle , but it harm the plantation .....

it move slow while I see them .. in group (Northborough, MA, US) .......





more
liewwk beetle collection
liewwk 2010 US collection

Landscape - the waiting

not too sure what is my feeling on the waiting moment for the sun to be out or disappear.. because every time it happen just too fast and I never able to record down my feel of the moment ....

one of the e.g.
the sky show it going to be beautiful day for sunrise but the mist full cover the dam/lake ... it going to be confuse feeling where I hate to mist but I could love it too as it make make a wonderful misty feel sunrise ........(what am I saying !!!!)

so do you enjoy the waiting or hate it.?


and I am sure I enjoy the moment to wait ........................


updated 22 Sept 2010...

Landscape - a Cold Sunrise

While I have my US trip April 2010, I managed to capture few beautiful and cold sunrise which discuss before @ Coldest landscape outing I ever have 

beside the good experience to feel the cold sunrise (while I am talking about cold mean it was ~<10C). I did capture few 2010 Landscape favorite .... and one of it publish and won a challenge in a local Photography magazine challenge (July 2010 Challenge HDR, Digital Camera Malaysia, DCM)




and it publish

and yesterday one of my gang request me to re-work the picture without HDR ... so I just did a simple exposure mapping from 2 pictures ... did some contrast, saturation



*** could be different by few minutes of both picture but same angle, time and setup used.


More @
US 2010 series
2010 liewwk Landscape
liewwk Sunrise series

other - where is the Milky ?

I was trying to capture a Milky Way since early 2010 till now ... may be my living place have too much light pollution and my luck is always not with me (few times staying in total dark place also having bad weather...)

but this is little close (or I could be wrong...) the note I added seem is park of the Milky Way ....





and this was from Ulu Geroh, Gopeng... which I wrote a share on this place before .. click here

other - happy week ...

I had wonderful friday dinner ... my gang celebrate my birthday (aiksss am one year older now) ... we laugh non stop , delicious food (seafood) and we have long never gather like this dinner ... think we should have this once every 2-3 month .. (man the food little pricey lah but good)

after the wonderful dinner (we reach home >12am today) and then most of us woke up 4am to hike to Bukit Tabur again (my Bukit Tabur collection) for sunrise ... even it was a disappointment's weather which make me have ZERO worth landscape/sunrise picture (again ... the forecast say whole day clear but we have whole day cloudy now !!!!) .... but I would say today is another happiest photography outing day I had for 2010 ... 

but we (KD, Lio, Real, Shunfa, Phooi Teng, Jason ... miss out a girl FFK) were enjoy the moment while we rest on the area we normally capture sunrise shot ... and have some funny shot with the new toy ...

-- handsome Lio
-- look at his handsome face with the beautiful view

-- fit Real Ho
-- he spent <30 minutes to hike uo to Bukit Tabur
   (I spent ~60minutes today)

-- this gentleman very famous ... almost every trip to here.. some girls will pass phone number or fb contact to him !!!!
-- he is Hero today, he safe a girl fall into a hole (on this picture right of the orange color girl stand position). the girl fall into deep ~10feet, he safe/bring her up

*** please hike with experience hiker for few trip before lead or hike to this mountain .... it is quite dangerous and need experience hiker for guidance ...

--- this is me .... :D
--- handsome ? cute ? leave some comments lah :D














miss out Jason on :(  aikssss but let me share who is Jason

--- this cute, handsome.... funny looking guy call Jason or Xiao Ming (小明)
- the other lady call Phooi Teng, who don't want to appear in my FB or blog ... (may be ... hmmm :D )












a group picture .. miss out
KD & Phooi Teng

more Bukit Tabur Pictures

Travel - National Park Endau Rompin, Johor, Malaysia 2

continue from previous post
http://liewwk-macro.blogspot.com/2010/08/travel-national-park-endau-rompin-johor.html

not a very good picture but still prefer to share this picture (show off how I shoot this :D )


we are at the Pantai Burung of Endau Rompin (Peta) , while we shooting the beautiful reflection ...

and I also busy to check out where will Sun raise .. and found out it will raise behind us .. then how ? so ...

 --- cross the river to the other side ....















and this is how I shoot the sunrise ....with the travel tripod !!!! (I love my new tripod alot .. and ohh forgot to give some report on the tripod.....)

how I shoot ... the "Dreamy Path"









more Endau Rompin pictures click liewwk Endau Rompin Series