Mimi on March 6th, 2010

In a previous post, I confessed to being a perpetrator of drive-by shooting. And my latest ’shooting’ involved the Petronas Twin Towers.
I took these shots en route to a meeting at Mandarin Oriental Hotel using my D90 and my 50mm prime lens from a moving car.
Here are the Petronas Twin Towers, layered one on top [...]

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Mimi on February 25th, 2010

I can write this post on the pretext of discussing the merits of the inexpensive Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D prime lens. After all, it’s a very affordable lens (list price is RM468 — around US$138 — but it can be had for just a little over RM300); it’s lightweight; it’s wonderful for low-light situations (as [...]

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An old friend from my alma mater, Ateneo De Manila University, was attending a conference in Malaysia last week and I had the chance to visit her at her hotel — the picturesque Pullman Lakeside Putrajaya.
The sprawling hotel — as its name indicates — is located right next to the man-made Putrajaya Lake, which [...]

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Mimi on February 10th, 2010

Foreword: This is a long overdue post on my June 2009 trip to Cape Point, South Africa. You may click on each photograph to see its slightly larger version in another tab or window, depending on your browser.
As I stood on the viewing deck of the lighthouse, bracing myself against the bitter cold of the [...]

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Mimi on November 18th, 2009

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Photo taken at Boulders Beach, Simon’s Town, South Africa, where the penguins roam freely within close proximity to humans.

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