Wednesday 31 January 2007

Tinged Smile

Tinged Smile

A picture of one of the models, Jolyn during our Phillip Island trip. This photo was the first picture taken of her with her looking the most natural and relax and most of the other photographers were busy taking scenery shot. The photo was edited to clean the hair and make it look neater. A diffused glow was also applied to this photo through the use of gaussian blur.

Tuesday 30 January 2007

Phillip Island Bridge

Phillip Island Bridge


Taken from San Remo overlooking the Phillip Island Bridge. This photo photoshopped quite extensively to bring out and saturate the sky, water and the sea weed colours while trying to keep it not "photoshopped" look. Curve was also used a lot to bring out the underexposed part of the photo.



Nineteenth century pioneers faced great challenges in creating access routes through the steep terrain of the Strzelecki Ranges, while Victoria's best known island, Phillip Island, was only accessible by ferries until the arrival of the suspension bridge from San Remo to Newhaven in the 1940s.

(courtesy of greatplacestostay.com)

Monday 29 January 2007

Weight Lifter

Weight Lifter


A future to be, Australian female championship weight lifter. A photo taken at San Remo beach. The expression of the girl was natural in a special way. A way that she seemed to be shocked and had no idea what to do next when there was a guy squatting and pointing his camera at her. The photo was post processed om photoshop to bring out more colours and contrast and also stamp out a boom in the background.


Weightlifting, sometimes referred to commonly as lifting, is a sport in which competitors attempt to lift heavy weights mounted on steel bars called barbells, the execution of which is a combination of power, flexibility, and technique. Olympic weightlifting trains the athlete for functional strength, utilizing the body's major muscle groups.

Competitors compete in one of eight (seven for women) divisions determined by their body mass. The men's classes are 56 kg (123.5 lb), 62 kg (136.7 lb), 69 kg (152.1 lb), 77 kg (169.8 lb), 85 kg (187.4 lb), 94 kg (207.2 lb), 105 kg (231.5 lb) and 105+ kg. 53 kg (116.8 lb), 58 kg (127.8 lb), 63 kg (138.9 lb), 69 kg (152.1 lb), 75 kg (165.3 lb), and 75+ kg[2]. In each weight division, competitors compete in both the snatch and clean and jerk, and prizes are usually given for the heaviest weights lifted in the snatch, clean and jerk, and the two combined.

The order of the competition is up to the lifters—the competitor who chooses to attempt the lowest weight goes first. If they are unsuccessful at that weight, they have the option of reattempting that lift, or trying a heavier weight later (after any other competitors have made attempts at that weight or any intermediate weights). Weights are set in 1 kilogram increments (previously 2.5kg increments), and each lifter can have a maximum of three lifts, regardless of whether lifts are successful or not.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Sunday 28 January 2007

Sticks

Sticks


This picture was taken in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. The new and modern airport sports almost all glass panes around the airport. These glass panes were supported by the stainless steel rods that interconnect with a huge frame. The image was processed to give a starking high contrast between the shiny and dull steel running around the pictures.



Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was the main airport in Guangzhou, China, until August 5, 2004, when it was replaced by the identically named Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, some 17 kilometers away.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Saturday 27 January 2007

Revolts

Revolts



This picture was taken during a transit and re-check in in the Guangzhou airport to Changsha airport. The passenger information display a error, most obvious that the system is running on Windows operating system. The error was caused by a low in virtual memory and "threatens" to rejects and additional task. Is this the start of computer system revolting?



Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (IATA: CAN, ICAO: ZGGG) (Simplified Chinese: 广州白云国际机场; pinyin: Guǎngzhōu Báiyún Guójì Jīchǎng) is the main airport of Guangzhou, the capital of the province of Guangdong, People's Republic of China. Both airport codes were inherited from the previous Guangzhou airport, Baiyun International Airport and the IATA code reflects Guangdong's former romanization Canton. The airport is the main hub of China Southern Airlines.

According to the Financial Times in an article on 18 January 2007, the airport handled 23.6 million people in 2005.


  • Runways: 2 (3800 m and 3600 m), room reserved for a third one
  • Aprons: 66
  • Current capacity: 27 million passengers per year
  • Planned capacity in 2010: 80 million passengers per year
  • Cargo capacity: 1 million tonnes
  • Planned cargo capacity in 2010: 2.5 million tonnes
(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Friday 26 January 2007

Agnes

Agnes


This is Agnes, my dad's second younger brother's daughter. She had joined me on the trip to China for Winter Root Camp 2006. This picture was taken in the flight to Guangzhou. Pose processing was done to made the picture have a soft glow and a more pointed chin as the high angle shot made her chin looks stubby.

Thursday 25 January 2007

The Fine

The Fine


This picture was taken aboard an Indonesian airline flying from Jakarta, Indonesia to Guangzhou, China. On each of the foldable tables in front of each seat,this sticker was attached to it. What it translate to English is "The life vest is a safety tool and can only be used in case of an emergency. To take and remove the life vest is an act of stealing which will incur a fine of Rupiah 10 million." It was shocking to see that they actually fine people in aircrafts, it normally used for buses and trains.



Air chamber

Life jackets for large commercial transport in potentially dangerous waters, such as coastal cruises and airlines, are often a sealed suit of heavy vinyl with an inflatable air chamber, and usually provides more buoyancy than its foam counterpart. The air chambers, usually located over the breast and back regions of the body, may be inflated by either self-contained carbon dioxide cartridges activated by the pulling of a cord, or blow tubes with a one-way valve for inflation by exhalation. Some of the inflatable life jackets also have a reaction with the water salt/fresh therefore enflating them.

Drifting in open seas and international waters, as encountered by long sea voyages and military forces, require prolonged survival in water. The life jackets suited for this purpose are often also equipped with survival kits, usually containing signalling devices, first-aid kits, food, water, and shark repellent.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Wednesday 24 January 2007

Sponge Bob no Pants

Sponge Bob no Pants


This picture of a boy was taken in Flinders Street Station. He was with his mum and sis and were waiting for the train to come. I took pictures of him without him realizing for the first few seconds. This picture is one of the most natural post while he was running around even though his face was not looking towards the camera, it was good in the sense that I can take some shots of him before he actually saw me and stop running.


SpongeBob SquarePants is a sponge who lives in a Pineapple, while his octopus[1] neighbor Squidward Tentacles lives in a moai head. SpongeBob's other neighbor and best friend (on the other side of Squidward), is a pink starfish named Patrick , who lives under a rock. Squidward always gets annoyed when SpongeBob and Patrick bother him.

SpongeBob's house-pet is a snail named Gary, whose "meow" is similar to a cat. Although Gary only speaks in a few episodes, the characters have shown an ability to understand him. In addition to this, underwater worms bark exactly like dogs, and are kept on chains. Jellyfish are the equivalent of Bees; buzzing, stinging with poison although appears to be an electric shock, and producing delicious "jelly", mocking the name "jellyfish", while still referencing a bee's honey. Fish act as the citizens of the community but, as a rule, are not important characters.

SpongeBob works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, a hamburger fast-food restaurant, with Squidward Tentacles who is the cashier. The Krusty Krab is owned by Eugene Krabs, also known as Mr. Krabs. Sheldon J. Plankton (commonly referred to as "Plankton") is Mr. Krabs' arch enemy who owns a low-rank fast-food restaurant called The Chum Bucket across the street which has never had a customer, and he spends most of his time plotting to steal the recipe for Mr. Krabs's popular Krabby Patty burgers.

SpongeBob is the only cartoon to consistently make the Top 10 list in the Nielsen ratings, and is the first "low budget" Nickelodeon cartoon, according to the network, to become extremely popular.

The motion simulator/interactive movie ride "Escape from Dino-Island 3D" at Six Flags Over Texas was turned into "SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D", with water squirts, real bubbles, and other sensory enhancements. LEGO received license to produce SpongeBob SquarePants building sets, beginning to sell them in May 2006.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Tuesday 23 January 2007

Hyperwarp

Hyperwarp


A reverse lens picture of a flower that was taken in Trinity College. The image was post processed in photoshopped to sharpen the details and adjustment in contrast was also made. The placing of the flower at the traditional "Rule of third" make it pleasing to the eye. The title was given due to the pattern at the middle of the flower which make it seem to be funneling through the flower when viewed fullscreen.



Using a special-purpose lens called a macro lens (some manufacturers call it a micro), having a long barrel for close focusing. A macro lens might be optimized to provide its best performance at a magnification of 1:1. Some macro lenses, like the Canon MP-E 65 mm f/2.8, can achieve even better magnification— up to 5:1 macro, bringing the structure of small insect eyes, snowflakes, and other minuscule but detailed objects into striking focus. However, it is more common for a photographer to use a "standard" ( 1:1 ) macro lens, like the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

Reversing the lens using a "reversing ring". This special adapter attaches to the filter thread on the front of a lens and makes it possible to attach the lens in reverse. Excellent quality results up to 4x lifesize magnification using fairly cheap, "standard" (not specially designed for macro) lenses can be produced. For cameras with all-electronic communications between the lens and the camera body, such as Canon EOS, reversing rings are available which allow all camera functions, including open aperture metering, to be used. When used with extension tubes or bellows a relatively cheap but highly versatile macro system can be assembled.

Reversing a lens of lesser focal length in front of a normally mounted lens using a very inexpensive "macro coupler," which uses two male filter threads to join lenses. This method allows most cameras to maintain the full function of electronic communication with the normally mounted lens for features such as open-aperture metering. Magnification ratio is calculated by dividing the focal length of the normally mounted lens by the focal length of the reversed lens (i.e., when a 50 mm lens is reverse mounted on a 200 mm lens a 4:1 magnification ratio is achieved). The use of automatic focus is not recommended due to the extra weight of the reverse-mounted lens. Attempted use of automatic focus with this technique could result in damage to the camera or lens. Working distance is significantly reduced as compared to the original lens.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Monday 22 January 2007

Anthony

Anthony


What are you looking at eh? Anthony's famous "V" shaped eyebrows will easily be remembered by anyone! This photo was taken in Melbourne Central Borders bookstore. I had finished my exam while they were still having their last exam, economics. Of course, this give me a relax time to take their photos studying and one lucky pose from Anthony.

Sunday 21 January 2007

Butt Out

Butt Out


This is not going to be a picture of anyone exposing their bottom. This is a picture taken along one of the alleys connecting Flinders Lane and Collins Street. The stand was fuming with smoke maybe due to smoker's not extinguishing their cigarette before throwing it in.

Saturday 20 January 2007

Reflections

Reflections


Taken at the Queen Victoria (QV) in Melbourne during Christmas 2006. I had taken this image from an extreme low angle. The image was further manipulated through photoshop to increase it's contrast and clear all the distracting supporting wires.



The first known electrically illuminated Christmas tree was the creation of Edward H. Johnson, an associate of inventor Thomas Edison. While he was vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company, a predecessor of today's Con Edison electric utility, he had Christmas tree light bulbs especially made for him. He proudly displayed his Christmas tree, which was hand-wired with 80 red, white and blue electric incandescent light bulbs the size of walnuts, on December 22, 1882 at his home on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Local newspapers ignored the story, seeing it as a publicity stunt. However, it was published by a Detroit newspaper reporter, and Johnson has become widely regarded as the Father of Electric Christmas Tree Lights. By 1900, businesses started stringing up Christmas lights behind their windows.[1] Christmas lights were too expensive for the average person; as such, electric Christmas lights did not become the majority replacement for candles until 1930.[2]

In 1895, U.S. President Grover Cleveland proudly sponsored the first electrically lit Christmas tree in the White House. It was a huge specimen, featuring more than a hundred multicolored lights. The first commercially produced Christmas tree lamps were manufactured in strings of multiples of eight sockets by the General Electric Co. of Harrison, New Jersey. Each socket took a miniature two-candela carbon-filament lamp.

Over a period of time, strings of Christmas lights found their way into use in places other than Christmas trees. Soon, strings of lights adorned mantles and doorways inside homes, and ran along the rafters, roof lines, and porch railings of homes and businesses. In recent times, many city skyscrapers are decorated with long mostly-vertical strings of a common theme, and are activated simultaneously in Grand Illumination ceremonies.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)


Friday 19 January 2007

Voodoo

Voodoo


One of the hundred of photos taken during the Trinity Drama Performance. The actor (Lius) and actress (Natashia) were still enough to allow me take this shot successfully. Lius drawn up some markings on his face to make himself looks more like a divine god and able to go into Natashia's mind. Parts of Lius were made into a purple hue to brings out the feeling of fear and voodooism.



Voodoo is a name attributed to a traditionally unwritten West African spiritual system of faith and ritual practices. Like most faith systems, the core functions of Voodoo are to explain the forces of the universe, influence those forces, and influence human behavior. Voodoo's oral tradition of faith stories carries genealogy, history and fables to succeeding generations.

The practice of sticking pins in dolls has history in European folk magic, but its exact origins are unclear. How it became known as a method of cursing an individual by some followers of what has come to be called New Orleans Voodoo, which is a local variant of hoodoo, is a mystery. Some speculate that it was used as a means of self defense to intimidate superstitious slave owners[citation needed]. This practice is not unique to New Orleans voodoo, however, and has as much basis in European-based magical devices such as the poppet and the nkisi or bocio of West and Central Africa.

These are in fact power objects, what in Haiti would be referred to as pwen, rather than magical surrogates for an intended target of sorcery whether for boon or for bane. Such voodoo dolls are not a feature of Haitian religion, although dolls intended for tourists may be found in the Iron Market in Port au Prince. The practice became closely associated with the Vodou religions in the public mind through the vehicle of horror movies and popular novels.

There is a practice in Haiti of nailing crude poppets with a discarded shoe on trees near the cemetery to act as messengers to the otherworld, which is very different in function from how poppets are portrayed as being used by voodoo worshippers in popular media and imagination, ie. for purposes of sympathetic magic towards another person. Another use of dolls in authentic Vodou practice is the incorporation of plastic doll babies in altars and objects used to represent or honor the spirits, or in pwen, which recalls the aforementioned use of bocio and nkisi figures in Africa.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)


Thursday 18 January 2007

Twin Shutter

Twin Shutter


This photo was taken during dinner after our drama test. I shot the picture while focusing on the camera and leaving the rest of the photo blurred due to the shallow DOF. The bear that she was hugging give an added value to the picture. This picture was rotated by a little to make the lines at the background horizontal. It was then made into monochrome and sepia style applied.

Wednesday 17 January 2007

Hand Stand

Hand Stand


This is Michael again. His hobby is break dancing and it was even integrated into our Trinity "The Cliche" final term drama play. Our group was practicing for the play and at the end of it, I had asked him to pose for me some hand stand picture for me to shoot. Michael had won the best dance during the Trinity Annual Ball 2006, "Hollywood".




Handstands are performed in many athletic activities, including breakdance, fitness competitions, circus acrobatics, cheerleading, and martial arts like Capoeira. In yoga, the handstand is known as Adho Mukha Vrksasana (downward-facing tree pose). Handstand dives are one of the main categories found in competitive platform diving. Some variation of the handstand is performed on every gymnastic apparatus, and many tumbling skills pass through a handstand position during their execution.

While learning the handstand, it is most common to hold the pose against a wall or other surface for support and balance.

The handstand is a fairly safe pose when performed correctly and is comparable to a headstand. If possible, avoiding transitioning from a headstand to a handstand for safety reasons. Either can produce momentary dizziness or vision changes, especially for those with conditions such as high blood pressure. Such individuals sometimes choose a smaller inversion like the "legs up the wall" pose as a substitute.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Tuesday 16 January 2007

Michael

Michael


This was taken in the College Square function room. Michael was break dancing and was resting on the floor when I lay flat on the ground and snap this photo. The use of short depth of field brings the face out. The logo on the cap is left coloured as the image is very interesting and catching to the eyes.



I believe he is undergoing through National Service in Singapore now. Good luck to you mate and come back soon! You can do it!

Monday 15 January 2007

Shine On Me

Shine On Me


This photo was taken in Law library of the University of Melbourne. The weather on that day was cloudy and kind of weird. I was studying beside the full length window when lights start breaking through the clouds. As time went by, the formation become more and more interesting. This picture is made up of 3 differently exposed pictures to properly expose the sky, clouds and the city.

Sunday 14 January 2007

Mugger

Mugger


This photo was also taken in the Law Library. I asked Chandra to lean against the book shelf and pretend to be reading a book. This way, I can get the long shelf of books. The photo was processed in photoshop as to leave the golden book coloured while black and white for the rest. The title was originally given to explain about the way people "mug" in the library when the exam is around the corner. However, the real meaning of mugger is a robber. After some thoughts, it fits the picture on how people actually "steals" the information on the books they read.




This photo was shown on the Fotoholics photo sharing session and people comented that the book seems to be glowing. This may be due to the effect of the low light down pointing florescent lights.

Saturday 13 January 2007

Dilenttantish

Dilenttantish


Taken in the Law Library in the University of Melbourne. Both of us were obviously bored while studying and hungry too. I found a piece of old book and asked him to pose. This was the last few frames taken and it looks the most natural and "studious".




The Legal Resource Centre (LRC) holds about 180,000 printed volumes on-site and the equivalent of about 30,000 volumes in microfiche or microfilm. It is predominantly a reference library, so many of the books are not available for loan.

We have a large range of online databases containing primary and secondary law resources. These databases can be accessed from within the LRC or from anywhere off-campus via the web.

Friday 12 January 2007

Felicya

Felicya


This photo was taken indoor in Swanston Trinity. The model in the photo is called Felicya. It was taken with a shallow depth of field and touched up in photoshop to clear the background and a soft glow was added. Her post is natural and fits comfortable into the frame.

Thursday 11 January 2007

Gue Banget

Gue Banget


This photo was taken during the Trinity Annual Photo Shoot 2006. We were quite luck that the shoot had been postponed due to bad weather because our Indo's "Gue Banget" T-Shirt had not been delivered to us. During the make up shoot, almost all of the Indonesians wore the shirt to the photo shoot. I had asked them to jump as high as they can at the count of three. I had done some processing to bring down the bright sky in the background and some cleaning up.



This photo was published in the Annual Trinity Today magazine of 2006. A picture that I took in the Annual soccer competition was also published beside this photo. By the way, the top right hand side of the second page is me. A PDF file can be found http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/publications/trinity_today/december2006/p38-39.pdf

Wednesday 10 January 2007

Heart In A Freeze

Heart In A Freeze


This is a fast action photo taken during the Annual Photo Shoot in Trinity College. I had asked them (those at the back) to jump at the count of three when Herman and Mikha had jumped into the scene. I took the photo in burst mode and in my second shot, I got this unique photo where both of them makes a heart shape in the air. The photo was processed to leave both of the people coloured while the rest in black and white.



The heart () has long been used as a symbol to refer to the spiritual, emotional, moral, and in the past also intellectual core of a human being. As the heart was once widely believed to be the seat of the human mind, the word heart continues to be used poetically to refer to the soul, and stylized depictions of hearts are extremely prevalent symbols representing love. However, more realistic depictions of human hearts tend to have macabre connotations of death and violence, quite unlike the concepts associated with the poetic and symbolic heart. This discrepancy is a common source of dark humor.

What the traditional "heart shape" actually depicts is a matter of some controversy. It only vaguely resembles the human heart. Some people claim that it actually depicts the heart of a cow, a more readily available sight to most people in past centuries than an actual human heart. However, while beef hearts are more similar to the iconic heart shape, the resemblance is still slight. The shape does resemble that of the three-chambered heart of the turtle, and that of the human male prostate gland, but it is very unlikely that the image was patterned after either of these organs. The double humps atop a stylized heart vaguely recall a human penis head's shape, but a rounded rather than pointed tip would better have captured the likeness.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)


Tuesday 9 January 2007

Self Confession

Self Confession


This was taken during the day of the Trinity Annual Photo Shoot. Herman and some of the other Indonesians had taken their precious time to make this shirt with all of our names at the back. Herman and Mikha were feeling "Hot" and posed for the shoot when both Kevin and Darwin tried to pull their shirts. The photo was processed in black and white bringing the feeling of happiness that was left in the photograph. The title was given to describe the inner feeling of the two man who maybe have a hobby of posing almost naked in front of the camera.

Monday 8 January 2007

Jeans

Jeans


This is Tze Meng clanging to Leslie's back. Leslie must have had a bad back ache after that. It was also taken during the last EAP class where both of them got high and start piggy backing. The photo was processed as to leave the deep blue jeans coloured white the rest black and white. Most of the people around the college wears jeans as daily outfit.


Jeans are trousers traditionally made from denim, but may also be made from a variety of fabrics including corduroy. Originally work clothes, they became popular among teenagers starting in the 1950s. Historic brands include Levi's and Wrangler.

Jeans were first created in Genoa, Italy when the city was an independent republic and a naval power. The first were made for the Genoese Navy because it required all-purpose trousers for its sailors that could be worn wet or dry, and whose legs could easily be rolled up to wear while swabbing the deck. These jeans would be laundered by dragging them in large mesh nets behind the ship, and the sea water would bleach them white.

In the 1850s Levi Strauss, a German dry goods merchant living in San Francisco, was selling blue jeans under the "Levi's" name to the mining communities of California. One of Strauss's customers was Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co wholesale house. After one of Davis's customers kept purchasing cloth to reinforce torn trousers, he had an idea to use copper rivets to reinforce the points of strain, such as on the pocket corners and at the base of the button fly. Davis did not have the required money to purchase a patent, so he wrote to Strauss suggesting that they both go into business together. After Strauss accepted Davis's offer, on May 20, 1873, the two men received patent #139,121, a patent for an "Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings", from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Initially, blue jeans were simply sturdy trousers worn by workers, especially in the factories during World War II. During this period, men's jeans had the zipper down the front, whereas women's jeans had the zipper down the right side. By the 1960s, both men's and women's jeans had the zipper down the front. In the United States during the 1950s, wearing of blue jeans by teenagers and young adults became symbolic of mild protest against conformity. Some movie theaters and restaurants refused to admit patrons who wore blue jeans. During the 1960s the wearing of blue jeans became more acceptable and by the 1970s had become a general fashion in the United States.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Sunday 7 January 2007

Beat of EAP

Beat of EAP


A picture taken during the last lesson with Pat Porter in Trinity College. I took this photo from a residential college's 3rd floor corridor. Going clockwise from Pat: Charles, Kim, Yan Zhi, Emanuel, Donald, Jin Sern, Chandra, Shi Kai, Michelle, Zhao Kai, Leslie and Tze Meng. Not in picture (Me, Jane and Gabriel). We are the EAP Mon & Fri (9 am)!

Saturday 6 January 2007

Pat

Pat


Pat Porter, our beloved English teacher on our last lesson with her. She is easy going and lively dring class which makes learning easy and not as stressfull. She can be said as the favourite teacher among the students who had lessons with her. She was very lovely in this picture, posing with a flower on her ear and in her hand. Soft glow was done in photoshop.



Ms Pat Porter, BA(Hons) Monash, DipEd, BEd La Trobe
Pat Porter has been teaching EAP in the February intake at Trinity since 2002. Her academic studies started with French and Spanish in the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. This led her to a BEd with a double major in Spanish (with Honours) and English Literature, and minors in Linguistics and French, at Monash University. After a DipEd at La Trobe University, she started secondary teaching at Killester College. She moved to teaching adults Spanish with the CAE, and ESL at AMES and La Trobe University. Pat then studied for her BEd at Deakin and La Trobe Universities, majoring in ESL, while teaching Academic English and running the ESL program and the English course development in Foundation Studies, La Trobe University.

(courtesy of trinity.unimelb.edu.au)

Friday 5 January 2007

The Smile

The Smile


This is Miechelle. It was taken in Chinatown. The way she bent her head and the subtle smile is perfect to bring out the relaxed feeling when this picture is seen. The picture was processed to give a diffused glow to the overall picture.

Thursday 4 January 2007

Alien

Alien


Where would the best place for the alien to come to the Earth? It would be Melbourne's Bourke Street. This boy was crawling through the opening between the bench which was lighted by the green light. Passerby do not seem to notice him. The image was processed in photoshop to leave the "alien" birthplace as coloured to add to the mood and to enable to notice him more easily.



Terms for stages of age-related physical development are listed below. Approximate age ranges are shown, but conceptions about the boundaries between different stages of life vary between cultures and periods. The age ranges and terms listed reflect 21st century conceptions in the developed world.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Wednesday 3 January 2007

Quad Quack

Quad Quack


This picture was taken in the Melbourne University's South lawn overlooking the Uni's Old Arts. However, people refer to the place as Old Quad which is more famous. I was on my way home from Baillieu Library when there was these two seagulls chirping in its highest notes. I took the picture from several angle and I like this the most. The sky was processed to make it darker and more contrasty.




Birds Sing Songs, Chatter, Call, Talk or Whistle for a variety
of reasons.

Just like other pets, birds have a need to communicate to
their owners, other birds and other pets in the home the
bird's needs, feelings or emotions. Birds have their own
unique way of communicating their desires through body
language and through their voice.


Talking

A Bird talks when it is content and happy and wants to
send a message to the another bird or it's owner.


Whistling

When a bird whistles it is communicating that the bird feels
content, safe and is at ease in it's world.


Chattering

Some birds just like to talk, talk about anything; their
environment, how they feel, the state of the union....
so to communicate their thoughts, they chatter/chirp, sometimes
incessantly, sometimes loud, sometimes soft.

Young birds chirp or chatter when they want fed. Birds in
the wild often chatter as a warning sign to other birds that
something is not right in their environment, or as a call
to attract another bird's attention.


Singing

While there are many reasons why a bird sings, it generally
can be divided into:

When it is communicating a message to another bird
When it is communicating a message to it's owner
When it is content and happy and just feels like singing a song


More Specifically Birds Call or Sing:

* Calling or singing to attract a mate.

* Calling or singing to establish the bird's territory

* As an indication of the readiness of either or both
partners for sexual activity

* Maintain a bond between male and female bird

* As a way of communication between parent and young

* As a means of warning it's mate or other members of the flock
of danger

* As a means of gathering a flock together or finding each other

* As a means of encouragement to fellow flock members (such
as the case of geese flying and calling to other members to
keep up

* As a tactic of intimidation to predators or other birds

* Birds do practice their songs, calling and talking through repetition

(courtesy of Petey, Petunia & Tweet Tweet)

Tuesday 2 January 2007

Supper Inn

Supper Inn


This is the famous Supper Inn restaurant in Melbourne. It is located in Chinatown. Visitors normally have to wait for at least 15 min in the narrow stairway to be able to get a seat. The speciality of the restaurant is the porridge or congee. There is one old waiter who is very polite and dress very neatly too.


Supper Inn

Restaurant
Melbourne
Credit Cards: All major cards
Open: Dinner daily
Price: Low
Score (/20): 14

Reviewed By

Sue Dyson and Roger McShane
Phone Number: +61 3 9663 4759
Address: 15 Celestial Avenue (off Little Bourke St)
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
Country: Australia
Food Style: Chinese

This is one of our favourite haunts in Melbourne. It is a place we are drawn to time and time again. Amid the apparent confusion and noise there is an underlying professionalism here which ensures that all diners receive the attention they require.

The congee here is exceptional! But we also like a range of other dishes ranging from the freshest possible oysters to the hot pots to the quail. If you are adventurous, the duck tongues are also lovely.

(courtesy of foodtourist.com)

Monday 1 January 2007

Donald

Donald


Happy New Year! For my first post in 2007, I have a photo of Donald. In contrast to the previous two entry, this guy is far from shy. You will know that he has a distinct character when you get to know him. The photo was processed into black and white and a cupboard at the right side of the photo was stamped out. Nice pose Donald!