I bought my Digital Single-Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera last year with a lens kit of Canon 18-55mm IS. Canon EOS 40D is a great camera with various feature aiming for a serious hobbyist photographer, even though I am not that level yet I am trying hard to become one and maybe in the future might actually become a professional photographer.

When I got the camera, my first impression was that Canon EOS 40D is a rather bulky camera. Luckily my hand is big enough that the camera fits comfortably in my palm. The camera came with a kit lens Canon 18-55mm IS, a very light and wobbly lens but I think it suits perfectly with the camera and with me while I learn how to use my 40D.

I used to own SLR camera before but I but it was my brother's in which when he lost interest with it I took it from him. It was a Minolta X700 and I was very happy with it until it broke and cost of repair was the same as buying a new camera. But during that time I was very busy with work, so I simply forgotten about photography until my wife bought a Canon film, point and shoot camera. But then it is also the same time as the pixel world exploded where camera was getting cheaper and pixel kept getting higher, the need to own a digital camera made us bought a digital point and shoot camera, a Nikon Coolpix P1. It is a good point and shoot with a WiFi feature that can transfer photos without wire to any personal computers with WiFi built-in devices which most of the latest laptop is already equipped with.

Somehow or rather the interest came back and I started to learn back how to take photos and I suppose it is just like riding a bike, you can't really forget how, and not for long that I started feeling the limitation of point and shoot (PnS) so I started looking for a better camera. So after a few months of surveying, lurking from one photo forum to the other, reading reviews from one site to the other I finally get a hold of my first DSLR, a Canon EOS 40D. Now, the new camera already changes my life, and I hope for a long and beautiful friendship ahead..

About 2-3 months or so after that I bought a new lens Tamron Zoom Telephoto AF 70-300mm f4-5.6 Di LD Macro to get a feel of using a tele-zoom for some reach. It is a cheap lens in comparison to other lens just a couple hundred dollars. But my justification of buying this is that I want to get to know how to handle this range of reach using el'chepo first before committing to a more expensive one. A camera like Canon EOS 40D is a cropped camera which is 1.6 times. This means that if I got a lens of 70-300, the actual zoom reach would be times 1.6 that is 112-480mm so having 70-300mm lens is not bad at all using a cropped camera. So taking photos of birds are possible.

Most the photos found in this blog would be taken using the Canon EOS 40D and the Nikon Coolpix P1.

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Star Fish or Tapak Sulaiman, found by Amal trying to bury itself under the mud under the hot sun while waiting for the high tide to come in..

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My little angels..
Amal, Yasmin and Farzana.
Three little figures that brighten the days
Small yet so agile and need lots of energy
just to keep up with 'em
But at the end of the day it all been worthwhile
Non can compare
the joy
the laughter
the cries
the nagging
the fun
the fulfillment
of having these three little angels...

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This is my kid, Zana, turn to do an art with torchlight, it is nothing really but it is way better then what she used to do on the wall, at least you don't have to re-paint the wall to get it clean. I need to encourage both kids Zana & Amal, to paint using torch lights. The cost of batteries are way cheaper then a can of paint. :D and less headache also.

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My kid, Amal, trying to paint a star using a torchlight while i was trying to capture the movement using my camera. A 3 seconds exposure and with the camera mounted on a tripod and attached to remote shutter release. After a few tries this is the best one, not bad for a first timer, may be next time could be better.

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This bug landed on my Laptop screen and just don't want to fly away. So, I bring out the camera, attach the flash and put on a Raynox macro filter to capture the bug up close and personal.

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This uncle is having a coffee at a roadside hawker stall.

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