Red Lanterns & Pineapple - Chinatown - Singapore

D700 60mm ISO400 f/2.8 1/30

Chinese New Year paraphernalia: the typical red lanterns and pineapples.

Happy Lunar New Year Of The Tiger !

D700 50mm ISO400 f/2.8 1/60

I wish to all followers of this blog and to their families the best of Health, Happiness and Success for this Chinese New Year of the Tiger!

The Colours of Chinatown

D700 70-300mm zooming ISO400 f/11 1/4

Having fun with this shot, zooming with a low shutter speed. These lanterns just screamed to be captured. The question was how? It was windy and the sky was dark. So I added movement using this technique.

Yellow-Vented Bulbul

D700 500mm + 1.7 teleconverter ISO400 f/6.7 1/500 tripod

Another visitor of the Mandai Orchid Garden.

Olive-Backed Sunbird

D700 500mm + 1.7 teleconverter ISO400 f/6.7 1/500 flash -0.3EV tripod

An Olive-Backed Sunbird on an Heliconia. I tested the FP function of the SB900 flash to increase the sync speed to 1/500. It worked well. Watch for flash battery level though, this function uses more power.

Chinese Pond-Heron - A Landing

D700 500mm + 1.7 teleconverter ISO200 f/6.7 1/1000 tripod

This was my first sighting of a Chinese pond-heron at Khatib Bongsu. At one point in fact, three of these birds were feeding off the mud flats. They all flew away as the tide came back in.

Grey Heron In Flight - II

D700 500mm + 1.7 teleconverter ISO200 f/6.7 1/1000 tripod

Some cropping applied on the flight shots...