Vagabond’s Caravan

Since I was hook on with documentaries some 5 years ago (when I got over the all the wrestling craps and cartoons) wildlife photography is always part of my dream. One of my dream career is to work as a wildlife photographer or documentary producer, haha, where as Discovery & NatGeo (National Geographic) are among my dream companies (whom I would love to work with/under).

There’s pros and cons for living in Brunei, the pros is that 80% of our country is covered with dense forest, and there’s SO many things out there in the wildlife, it’s just a matter of courage and passion. The cons is that we don’t even have a decent (don’t talk about the mini zoo, man…) zoo! I miss the zoos in Singapore and Bintulu (absolutely in love with it!). I think when I got a decent collection of gears, I’ll go Temburong or KK or somewhere for some wildlife photography, that would be so cool, man. =D Who wants to come along? =D

Ok, get back to the main point. =) Well, as I mentioned before, CheaXin’s dad borrowed me his Canon EOS 350D, and I had it for almost a week. During the week, I took quite a number of photos in my neighborhood. Took then in the evening, after I came back from school and when it’s not raining. One of the project I was having so much fun (and frustration) doing is - Bird photography.

Bird photography isn’t about taking photos of birds only, it’s about passion & patient and the ability to observe and hold on to opportunities that might be lost within seconds (you would never know when would a bird fly pass you). You need a lot of passion to be able to spend hours observing the birds and you need endless patient to keep on trying, and approaching the birds as slow as possible.

I wasn’t very serious this time, I was just trying to do some snapshots on the birds, and see how close I can get (without the use of lure, feeds, camouflage and etc). I didn’t put it my effort, so yea, I understand why the outcome sucks.

Oh yea, I am very interested in digiscoping, might get myself a spotting scope (and build-up a digiscoping system) after I get my d-SLR, hehe, then go Temburong, wooo, syok! xD Check out this cool bird digiscoping site and the gallery.

Here’s some of my (ugly) bird photographs:

P.S: All photos (except for the last shot) were taken at least 4m away from the subjects. I cropped these photos severely, and none of them is usable (for print).

Bonus photos - My dogs/puppies:

P.S: Try compare these with those I took 2 weeks ago using my *late* compact DC (Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-M1). =)