Fish tank update

It has been about a month since we got the rose tip bubble anemone. Yesterday, it split and now, we have two anemone!

Capture your 365 : 10/16- 10/19

I mentioned in the previous post I missed out on the Capture your 365 photo challenge. However, I actually did manage to post 4 photos! :)

It has been more than a week since the last upload of the 365challenge photo. Life just sneak up on me and it was craziness for the last week or so! I hate it that I missed my commitments but at the same time, I have to remind myself - it is supposed to be FUN. Today's challenge is actually quite hard for me as I hated the color "yellow"! I have these horrible migraines which makes me sensitive to the color. Fortunately, after running around the house for about 30mins, I found a pleasantly blooming yellow orchid. It was cloudy, and I waited for the sun to be out. However, things never go according to my plan, and it started raining! Good thing I took a quick shot before it started pouring.

Work has definitely been accumulating, especially when the end of the school semester is approaching. Papers to review, mark etc... and more data to analyse, papers to write, presentations to prepare. Having fun definitely taking a backseat now, and work has just moved right "to the front" of the line! However, no one says you can't enjoy a bit of view 

Hard to imagine that there was a huge storm last night with the sun shining so bright today! Found a spiderweb lingering around the grapevine, hanging on to a few threads.

Summer is approaching, and the grapevine is about to return to its full glory soon!

Northland dive

This past 2 weeks have been a bit crazy, and it is not getting any easier next week either with the "end of semester marking craze" just around the corner! Thus, I have all the "excuses" to miss 2 weeks of Capture your 365 photo challenge :P.

Anyway, Hannah and I were to determined to squeeze in a day of diving in between all this craziness. Especially, we have not been diving together for so long, and we have not done any stage diving since our technical diving course 2 years ago! Thus, off to Northland Dive we went. Our neighbour, Corin took great care of the dogs while we were away for the day.

We had two fantastic dives on the Canterbury. The visibility was not very good, and the water was very green. This is because there is an algae bloom from the slight increase in water temperature as the season changes. We had the chance to take a few photos with the new (used) camera and underwater housing. Honestly, the photos looks horrible because I am still trying to get used to the functions etc. So bear with me with the crappy photos, but I am sure I will improve overtime :)

Capture your 365 : 9/27 - 10/3

I decided to sign up for this website - Capture your 365 to improve my photography skills. After all, we have a couple of great cameras in the cabinet, and it seems a waste only to use them during vacations. The website/ community will send me a prompt everyday, and I am supposed to take a photo which I think suits that word/ phrase best. Instead of posting the same photo here everyday, I am only going to compile and put up the photos that I submitted here once a week.

Here are the first week photos and the captions.

9/27: A Friendly Face - Not exactly what you call the most friendly face to wake you up in the morning. However, I wouldn't ask for anything more than sloppy kisses from doggies to start the day.

9/28: Fairyland - Rain clouds are rolling in and it is going to be another wet weekend. The tide is receding, and it makes this weird color palette in the bay. Magical moment when a full rainbow forms across the bay! Such a perfect set-up - maybe at the end of the rainbow is Fairyland.

9/29: Prominent - Don't really know anyone who is prominent or famous. The nearest I came to knowing someone that is important (which I still wonders why is he important) is the bronze statue of a security guard on our campus. Set against the backdrop of remnants of an old concrete wall, the statue looks very majestic. It is very real-life like, even complete with the big belly which was spotted on a number of security guards

9/30: Late - Summer is around the corner very soon (in the Southern hemisphere), and it is finally getting warmer out this time of the night. Hannah (my wife) had just put up the colorful christmas lights on the deck. The bright city lights in the backdrop forms a nice contrast to the quiet and peaceful life we are enjoying at our home late in the night.

10/1: Signs of Fall - Living in the Southern hemisphere, spring is approaching, so today's theme is a bit hard to achieve. I was hunting around the house for something that was left over from last Fall. A branch of manuka tree was still waiting to get its spring leaves. I guess this is the closest to Fall I can get at the moment.

10/2: Lines - Hannah (my wife) loves old furnitures. She picked up this old, beat-up looking cabinet at a store for the price of a new cabinet. I was rolling my eyes, but she said I wouldn't understand. It was literally a cabinet that was pieced together with planks of woods.... I guess it have nice lines.

10/3: Out of Focus - Our neighbour is a botanist, and he just gave us a bunch of succulent. One of them is call Buddha's tummy. It drops its leaves in the winter, and now its leaves are starting to come back. Trying out the macro, adding some color to the back with the bright red cactus.