It has been a while we did not write about the natural world. Today, I will show you a sprouted sweet potato. It has leaves in red before it turns green.

Look at the details on the small red leaves. That is the effect I want from the camera. The important thing that needs to be taken care is focusing. Anyway, I was still using auto focus. I should use the smallest possible aperture, but the lighting disallowed it.

If I am not mistaken, the potato sprout is poisonous but the sweet potato leaves are edible. [Read this sentence carefully] hehe…

It not easy to do manual focusing on my camera, because I need to press the + and - button instead of turning the focusing ring. Another thing is that I only have a small screen to preview the focused part, and it was on a small 2″ LCD display. The focused part is zoomed but the preview has a lot of noise (rainbow colours dots) which prevent me to focus to the object properly.

I wonder I should get my dream camera (a high zoom power semi-pro compact camera) or a DSLR. The DSLR for beginner is cheaper than my dream camera, how can this happen?

Finally, sweet potato is my favourite. Hehe… We like sweet potato soup.

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Valentines Updates

It tooks us 30 minutes to get through a street which normally only takes less than 5 minutes. I am not sure it’s because of the people selling flowers beside or even on the street along waterfront Kuching; or there are too many couples coming out to the street and caused the serious traffic jam.

We have presents, a normal dinner but no special celebration. May be we were too old for that. For us, everyday is our valentines. :d :d :d