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A small village in a little island in the Lake Erhai near Dali, Yunnan, China 2005. The market is full of baskets with shrimps, little fish, and a lot of eatable things.
Snorkling off Lord Howe Island. We are swealtering here 37C today and tomorrow 38C (that's around 100F) so I decided to cool off with some more of my underwater shots.
The colours are just amazing down here under the water!
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Fish On! That's what I felt like yelling when this big, emerald green aurora cleared the whitecaps of the moonlit Alaska Range and leapt into the deep blue starry skies above. It wiggled and thrashed about as the aurora performed aerial acrobatics that would have impressed any angler!
Finding the fishing hole was a discovery itself. It was March and I was exploring the gravelly Denali Highway east of Cantwell when I came upon a sign: "Winter Road Maintenance Ends Here." Snowmachine and truck traffic had packed the snow fairly well so I locked in the 4WD to avoid fishtailing and kept on going. I found an inviting spot where the trees thinned (didn’t want to get a snag), baited up with my favorite lenses, cast out the tripods and then did what fisherman do, waited patiently…
The first couple nights I had several nibbles and one decent bite but none of them were keepas. But on the third night a trophy-sized aurora struck and I set the hook. Fish On!
I gripped my camera firmly as I opened up the f-stop then lengthened the exposure time to give the aurora some line. Play 'em. Grab the net! My tackle moaned and groaned in the cold weather but held tight and in the end it took three, slightly overlapping, 12-second exposures to get the whole thing into the boat (my first aurora panoramic stitch job).
Did I capture it? Nah, the aurora has way too much energy for that action. I like to think in more sporting terms of "preserving the moment." It was catch and release, and it fed me well.
The Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery (also known as the Twin Groves Temple) is a large Buddhist temple complex situated in the Toa Payoh district of Singapore.
We were keen to visit this temple as my parents had done so back in the 1960s, though little of the present structure was recognisable from their photos since the complex has been greatly enhanced and expanded since the 1970s, all in traditional Chinese style. There were a few items here we did recognise though in the sculptures of the main prayer hall (where photography is no longer allowed) and the curious painted wooden dragon-fish hanging in a minor corner, that had intrigued me in one of the old 60s slides (I'd been determined not to leave till we'd found that, despite arriving so close to closing time!).
Today the surroundings of the temple seem rather unsympathetic, with concrete apartment blocks of Toa Payoh's extensive housing estates and a busy main road closing in on the complex from all sides.