Had to wake up at 6.30am today. My head still feels as though its about to fall off.

Today was floor photo day. Everyone dresses up nicely in formal clothes and takes lots of photos. Took about two hours. Lots and lots of photos. It was quite fun. At least I’ll have photos of all my floormates now to remember them by.

It’s a break from all the squashed mosquito photos eh?

Here are other photos I took from today. Mouseover for comments:

I really love the banana leaf one. I got it off devart. It’s my current wallpaper. It matches really well with my white widescreen laptop XD. It’s not too distracting and yet not too plain. I find it quite masculine actually. Masculine power executive. Maybe its because of all those parallel straight lines…all…strong in their own way, always alone with no hope of meeting other lines. Feminine is frilly and curly and excess. This is minimalist; using the least to say the most.

I really like taking close-ups of photos. It’s wonderful to see the tiny details get blown up on the monitor. Like with the beetle above, I would never have noticed the detail on it if i hadn’t taken this photo with flash. It would just be a rather large squirming beetle. But this photo imprisons the image of the beetle; freezing it for a moment in time. The fur edging, the exoskeleton detail on its pincer-like claws, how its legs aren’t smooth but have tiny little indentures, much like crab shell (see front right leg)…

I only wish I had more skill/a better camera so that every little part of that beetle can be sharply in focus.

I like any subject I can take a closeup of. Flowers get too girly and stale (that’s why I try to photograph other angles rather than the front – alas not many decent photos yet). Beetles, mosquitos and other insects are interesting – there are so many details to look at. Also, they gross out those with weak stomachs – always a pleasant side effect (tickles the bully in me).

Other photos for today are here. This time its a slideshow! Check it out!