After the Rain

Greenery looks always greener after the rain for some reason. Today, like most days during this week there was a brief downpour during the afternoon, clearing the haze and the hot weather during the week. I was eating my lunch when I thought that rain would make interesting photos.

Unfortunately by the time I got back home and packed everything, the rain already stopped. Yes, I wanted to take some shots in the rain. Never tried doing shots in the rain, probably would be fun, have to experience it one day.

Anyway, took a walk around the neighbourhood since I packed everything, even though I did not get the setting I wanted. Ended up walking in the nearby Yishun park and the after the rain scenery was really nice. Lots of stuff fallen on the ground – stuff which I have no idea what they are.

Seriously, what is this black thing?

Brown leaves, looking great with with Kureha as usual. There was a ridiculous amount of brown leaves on the ground after the rain. For some reason I was worried that I might leave Kureha behind because she was pretty well camouflaged.

Spot the jogger in the background.

My most favourite shot of the day. I would have preferred the leaves and grass to be a little more wet. This was the only shot that really felt like it was after the rain. Never really took a top-down angle before in the past. Kind of like it ^^

A-Bery-Big-Bleaf. Papaya plant was it?

This whole shot was entirely done on my 50mm f1.8 prime. It’s quite a fun lens to use, but I’ve yet to get used to it in the outdoors. I usually prone and lie on the floor, which makes me squint into the viewfinder, and manual focusing becomes a challenge.

I don’t think primes where made with the intention to take such shots, but I really like how the prime makes you move around your subject and work with angles and the lighting. Spot the Rin btw.

I have no idea why there’s a tap in the middle of no where in the park.

The fun thing about walking around instead of cycling is that I spend more time covering a certain area and find more interesting things. This is one of the best things about shooting outdoors, as compared to indoors, there are a ton of ways and possibilities to compose your shot. To me, indoors is too predictable and boring. Though I would like to point out that I have a tap indoors too. ^^

On the walk home, I saw some really cute kitties. Cats are the love. Between figures and cats I’ll choose shooting cats. I used to own a few kitties, but I was a bad owner so none of the stories ended with “happily ever after”.

This cat was adorable. She’s the same one on the header pic with Rin. I also realised the header pic doesn’t appear on RSS which sucks. Need to find a way to work around it. Anyway, preempting questions like “Didn’t the kitty try to chew Rin because she looks like a mouse?” Yes, the cat swiped Rin’s head and attempted to chew her twin tails.

Cat number 2 is a lovely one. The same one which I took a shot of Drossel patting her. Forgot to include that shot in the weekly update of “A Week in the Life of Figures” this week. Probably do so if I remember next week.

Love her side profile. I tend to like the side profiles of a lot of things – especially cats and figures.

Skinny and scrawny cat #3. She was very wary of me, kept her distance and did not allow me to go near her, unlike the previous 2. I still have no idea why some strays are so afrain of humans and some so friendly. Bad experiences maybe?

And this concludes this post. All shot using my 50mm prime. Getting used to the Manual Focusing, though some pictures were a little off still. Looking to upgrade my 18-55mm to something stronger and have my sights set on a particular Tamron. Looks like the D90 shall wait a little while. Loving this prime lens and it’s creamy bokeh and gorgeous razor sharpness.