Lunch!

by | Jul 20, 2020 | Birds, Phuket, Southeast Asia, Wildlife

One of our resident yellow-vented bulbuls getting ready to lunch on a juicy morsel.

This shot was taken using my new Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM C lens at 600mm. The bird was about 20 metres away and the image has been cropped in LR. I am blown away by the quality of this lens in combination with the Canon 90D and its 32Mpx sensor.

1/1000 at f8 ISO 800

Sky On Fire!

by | Jul 17, 2020 | Phuket, Southeast Asia, The Sky

The advantage of a very long lens is that you can almost climb inside a sunset. This shot, taken from our balcony on an evening with a particularly dramatic sunset, was one of my first with my new Sigma telephoto zoom. It’s one fabulous lens.

Canon 90D with Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM C lens at 600mm. ISO1000 1/640 at f8. Handheld.

Just Another Kamala Sunset

by | Jun 24, 2020 | Phuket, Southeast Asia, The Sky

when it’s not raining, the monsoon season sunsets in Phuket are consistently spectacular.

Top: Canon 90D with Canon 55-250mm lens at 89mm ISO 800 1/80 at f5

Lower: Canon 100D with Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens at 10mm ISO 800 1/100 at f4.5

Apocalyptic sunset

by | Jun 13, 2020 | Phuket, Places, The Sky

Armageddon? End of the world? Nah – just another glorious monsoon-season sunset over Kamala Bay 25 May 2020 6.37 pm taken from our balcony! Magico.

Canon 90D with Canon EF-S 55-250mm f4-5.6 zoom lens at 250mm ISO200 1/400 at f5.6. Tweaked in LR

Kamala Beach Storm

by | Jun 11, 2020 | Phuket, Places, Southeast Asia, The Sky

It has been a while since I posted. Many reasons for that, but there is now a pile of images in the in-tray. Here’s the first. Kamala beach on 10 June in the early morning with a rapidly advancing storm – it’s the monsoon season here in Phuket.

Shot taken on an iPhone SE and enhanced in Lightroom.

Busy bee!

by | Apr 22, 2020 | Insects & Spiders, Phuket, Southeast Asia

This carpenter bee spent several hours buzzing around the stand of bamboo outside our front door returning many times to improve on a neat hole he was making in a main stem. These bees are totally harmless but get bad press as a result of the damage they do to wood.

We get many in the garden in Italy as well where they are great if clumsy pollinators — their navigation system doesn’t seem to be the best in that they often fly straight into things, like people. I’ll put a set of these shots in the gallery.

Canon 90D with Canon 55-250 f4-5.6 IS STM lens at 250mm ISO640 1/250 at f8. Cropped and polished in LR.