The have and the have-not

The monkeys seem to be used to being constantly fed. Visitors generally bring bananas or sugarcanes, sold outside the caves, and amuse themselves watching the monkeys eat. Not so amusing when they start snatching plastic bags, purses and garlands (happened in front of me). Well at least it's still better than the Kami Mata Temple in India.

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Monkey do!

Instant gratification. Yum!

Lighting is a major problem in the Batu Caves, and the only option is to shoot at ISO 1600 at low shutter speeds. I think it's time that I invest in a flash gun *drools*


Nikon D70s, AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm DX ED VR

Monkey see...

Examining the spoils of the day.

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回眸一笑

Followed Kit and Brigitte for a photo outing some time last month. Since I've been here before, I was looking for something new to shoot, and all I could see was monkeys. Well, people and monkeys. But I didn't feel like taking pictures of gaggling Chinese aunties that day (if you catch me in that mood, kill me), and I've explored Hinduism on other occasions, so monkeys it was.


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Breaking character

If anyone has been following this blog, you'll have noticed the extreme lack of activity. I blame this on procrastination, and the fact that I've switched from Windows XP to Vista. (Warning, rant ahead)

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Nikon Capture NX, which is what I use to convert RAW files to JPEG and also *coughs* perform my limited repertoire of image manipulation, on its own installs fine on Vista, however you will need to install .NET Framework 1.1 first, because Microsoft smartly decided to exclude 1.1 from Vista. Hell.

After weeks of hair-pulling and visits to Aaron Stebner's blog, I finally found the cure. Nevermind that it took me so long to find the link, what I really wanna know is:

• why can't MS bloody fix the framework install if there are so many known issues, or include 1.1 as part of Vista, and
• whether there's a need for NX to be tied down to the 1.1 Framework. Out of the 20 odd dll files, less than half contain CLR code, out of which, all are GUI-related or wrappers to unmanaged code. Surely it can't be that hard to uncouple the dependency on 1.1??
  

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Anyway, now that things have been fixed, expect to have a few more updates over the next couple of weeks, work permitting, of course =)

Ethereal

A long overdue picture, shot on a tripod in a hurry at the Lumut pier, with only a couple more minutes before the ferry left. I was on a very brief trip back to Pangkor for the Cheng Beng/Qing Ming Festival, and waiting for the first ferry to arrive was the only quiet moment I had during the entire trip (that, and waiting since 2am for the friggin pier to open at 7am)

Nikon D70s, AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm DX ED VR