Pictures ...or picture... FINALLY!

Thanks, Wee Kiat, for all that advice on posting pictures. In the end, it's just a matter of saving the picture in hard disk.... was retrieving the picture from Yahoo photos earlier, which obviously doesn't work.

Anyway, please look under my entry dated 16 April 06 for the picture. I'm sorry to say the first picture posted on my blog wasn't taken by yours truly. But I couldn't resist posting it because I want you people to share with me the wonders of looking at a mesmerizing wildlife photo. It's a leaf out of a National Geographic page (my favourite!!!). I can't help but marvel at how true to life it is! The sense of life ebbing out of the helpless lizard is so palpable that you feel you are at the scene witnessing this bloodless murder.... this word seems too vividly cruel. But I think the impact of the slaughter is (unjustifiably?) mitigated by the capture of the stream of water droplets cascading from the lizard's tail. Somehow, the swaying motion lends a surreal touch of grace and beauty to the scene ... so much so that initially, I was immune to the suffering the poor guy went through while his life was snuffed out prematurely, in probably a split second....
such is the fragility of life.....

This brings to mind what I often heard at the zoo.....

Animals in the wild don't die old.

A special thanks to WT for letting me use his picture. What wonders an SLR with high shutter speed and long lens can do .... but of course, credit must be given to his patience and a good camera eye ready to pounce on fleeting moments of wildlife adventures.....