meow the mechanic

Wet Land Park

2008-05-12T07:36:00.000-07:00

A good place to take pictures for small creatures (e.g. crabs, small fish, butterflies..etc) and some wetland plants, you can hardly find any birds as they are hiding far away (visitors too noisy??). For HK$200, you can bring your whole family there anytime the whole year, worth the price. See here for more pics.

Nan Lian Garden

2008-05-04T07:55:00.000-07:00

It could be the best garden I ever been in Hong Kong, worth to spend a whole afternoon there. Take pictures of the golden tower near sun set time make it looks even more "golden". However, most indoor exhibits does not allow taking pictures, and closes at around 5-6:00pm. Anyway, the outdoor scene is excellent, and I took almost 300 shots in 4 hours. See pics here.

30 hr famine

2008-04-20T07:45:00.000-07:00

All I can say is: Great!

see some pics here.

What happened during the 1st day of 30hr famine

2008-04-19T07:38:00.000-07:00

Five warning signals appear at the same time, and relative humidity 100% !! It was the day before my duty as volunteer in the 30 hr famine. Really challenging

View through my window

2008-04-07T06:41:00.000-07:00

Picture taken at home, through the window of the living room. Dramatic color is a result of using flash white balance plus landscape picture style, those purple red sky were effects using twilight picture style. May be the mountain is a bit high, as a result, the sun still very bright when it "touches" the slope of the mountain. Anyway, there is only a few times each year I can see such good weather and clear sky. See my album here.

Gold Coast Hotel

2008-04-06T06:38:00.000-07:00

Nice place to spend an afternoon there, can go swiming also when the wheather is warmer. See my album.

Museum of Coastal Defence

2008-03-28T06:21:00.000-07:00

Showing the coastal defence history of Hong Kong, a great place to visit, as I went there in the afternoon, not enough time to visit all the places, it closes so early (5:00pm), must visit again soon. See here.

Hok Tau Reservoir and Lavender Garden

2008-03-25T08:03:00.000-07:00

Plus the strawberry garden also, all three next to each other. Strawberries are expensive, cost $40 per pound. The strawberries looks good, however, the toilet there is horrible. As for the Lavender Garden, you can have BBQ and then take pictures of their Lavender field. The reservoir is small, can walk around it within 2 hours. See here for pictures

Flower Show 2008

2008-03-14T08:17:00.000-07:00

Due to the warm weather, the tulip were all opened, even it was only the third day after the show starts. Fortunately, I got good sun shine that day, unlike last year which was raining which cause dull colors. One thing I feel regret is I forgot to use polarizing filter to improve the saturation of color, hopefully next year I can experiment on this and also get an extension tube to take closer "close up" shots. See here.

The moon

2008-03-12T08:12:00.000-07:00

First time taking pictures of the moon, using the EF-S 55-250 at its longest focal length, the picture is sharpened to get a bit more texture feel. See here and also pictures of the Space Museum taken a few days earlier.

Meowmechanic's NXT Biped as model for inspiration in NXT Log

2008-03-05T08:50:00.000-08:00

The MINDSTORMS NXT Biped Building Challenge mentioned my biped design in their inspiration section, see here. I will just keep it as an inspiration model, and will not participate in the challenge as one of the requirement is to use Lego NXT-G software (mine using RobotC), I have only the old version 1.0 NXT-G on hand which is buggy, and the biped is already torn down for another project. Hope all participants enjoy this building challenge.

Kowloon Park

2008-03-01T07:56:00.000-08:00

Either my eyes are no good or the view finder is small, I found it difficult to manual focus those birds inside the cage, auto focus always mistaken the mesh as the focal point. As a result, I tend to look for those birds on the trees outside and also those swimming in the pool. See here.

Dragon Park

2008-02-29T07:47:00.000-08:00

It's located in Tin Shui Wai, its new and its quiet also, not many people know its existence, except those photographers who searches for new scene to shoot. See here.

NXT Biped documented in Lego NXT Log

2008-02-13T08:44:00.000-08:00

I had uploaded the NXT biped details including the Lego digital designer files in Lego's NXT Log. Click here to enter NXT Log.

Shing Mun Reservoir, Again

2008-02-08T07:43:00.000-08:00

This time equipped with a tele zoom lens, I take close up pictures in the whole trip. See here.

New lens for New Year

2008-02-03T07:38:00.000-08:00

Got my EF-S 55-250 IS and upgraded my kit lens to EF-S 18-55 IS, immediately go to new year fair at the Victoria Park to take some photos. See here.

NXT Biped

2008-01-26T08:33:00.000-08:00

Finally came up with this biped design, it had spent me several months going through different design and failures before getting it to work, see details in my web site.

Hoi Ha Wan Visit

2007-12-27T07:12:00.000-08:00

To see the coral, we have to take a speed boat out to the sea, however, it was a bit disappointed as the coral is not that attractive, its huge but not as beautiful as those we normally saw in a fish tank. See here.

Ocean Park

2007-11-25T05:31:00.000-08:00

Its quite difficult to get a proper exposed photo in the aquarium, may be a faster focusing lens can help.

Canon Expo

2007-11-24T05:29:00.000-08:00

The ballet was so interesting, forgot all about those cameras and lens in the expo.

Plover Cove Reservoir

2007-11-17T05:08:00.000-08:00

Picnic at the Plover Cove Reservoir, sunny day and blue sky, my skin turned red.

The Peak

2007-10-19T07:53:00.000-07:00

Pictures with Peak Trams, Madame Tussauds Hong Kong and from Peak to Central.

Ping Shan

2007-10-07T07:50:00.000-07:00

Some heritage stuff, such as temples, ancient houses and well.

Jocking and Stanley Market

2007-10-01T07:47:00.000-07:00

Spend a whole day walking and taking pictures, great!

Doulos

2007-09-29T07:41:00.000-07:00

This is the last time Doulos visit Hong Kong before retire, we shall miss the oldest ship in the world.

This is also the first time I buy books without worry too much about the price.