Termination Salvation

Went to see it yesterday. Some people have complained that it's not a worthy successor to the Terminator series (hell, those fanboys don't like anything that isn't made by James Cameron) but I thought it was OK. Is it up there with T1 and T2? Definitely not. But as a summer popcorn movie, it was pretty entertaining and delivered on all the action shots. Too bad one of the trailers gave away a key point in the movie though.

I went to The Grand Cinema in Elements (love those vibrating chairs) and discovered that there was a small exhibition of Terminator models and a 1:1 scale of the T600.

Playing with water

Nothing but rain this past weekend, so I spent the day, appropriately, playing with water drops.


Wow, water droplet photography is soooo tricky. There's probably an easier way to do it, but given the equipment that I have, it was mostly trial and error. Here's a shot of my set-up:

I set my camera to bulb mode, clicked open the shutter, used a eye dropper to drip a drop of water and triggered the flash the moment the drop hit, then closed the shutter.

Over 200 shots later, here are the results I got (I adjusted the contrast in post-processing):

More photos at http://www.fotop.net/teruphoto/Water_World

Birds

Another visit to HK Park. Last visit wasn't so great because it was overcast, so lots of the photos came out a bit noisy (because of the necessary high ISO).

What the Hell are you looking at?!

I didn't know parrots were French...

Anyone know what kind of birds these 2 are?