Top 20 Photos of 2013 - #3

#3

I have gained a lot of great photos by simply walking out onto my balcony. All manner of bugs, birds and dragonflies have temporarily set base here. One evening in 2013 I noticed another marvellous visitor to our balcony, its colourful and perfectly decorated body sitting still on our lavender plant. These are the grasshopper's hind legs in an upright position, resembling the shape of the Petronas Twin Towers, while a front leg clutches a tiny branch to the right. The soft blue background portrays the first glimpse of dusk.

Top 20 Photos of 2013 - #10

#10

The days of real sunsets appear to have dried up in Kuantan as compared to several years back when they occurred almost every week. The irregularity of the sunsets made this particular evening extra special. Standing on my balcony I allowed the apartment block, hill and neighbouring balconies to act as a frame in silhouette. And the colours and texture of the clouds with a couple of strips of blue and a golden horizon just speaks for itself. One of my very favourite sunset photos of all time!

Kuantan Skies #16

This is part 16 in a series of 26 photographs of the Kuantan Skies taken this year. All but 3 were taken from my window or balcony.

Kuantan Skies #16 - Leaning over the balcony railing to get an alternative angle of the sunset can make one a little giddy sometimes!

A Bug's Life

There are plenty of bugs invading our balcony on a pretty consistent basis. Using my coloured paper as apparatus. I captured this dainty specimen on my orchid plant:

This is a bug's life - they fly around, eat, mate, and get photographed by me!

For more pictures of a beautiful dragonfly I captured right after this fly, hop over to my 

Nature Blog

where a full documentary is explored.

A Saturday BBQ on Day 5

After my afternoon tuition classes ended at 6pm we set up the BBQ and got it burning.

We barbecued chicken wings, sausages and prawns, and later held some marshmallows over the fire!

We had some honey to spread over the food...

Our little BBQ stand performed well on our little balcony. 

A lovely meal all round. My parents prepared some salad to compliment the meat. Drinks of pepsi and revive washed it all down.

For entertainment afterwards, my dad and I used a watergun and the hose pipe to spray intruding cats and (regrettably) rats, scrummaging around for food in the bins. We were successful!