Friday 1 March 2013

Wildlife photographer


Zoologist conduct field observation and sampling to determine something about ones wildlife natural history. They are the one who have the privilege to find, use traps and collect samples during their field trips. Due to that, it is important that a zoologist have a DSLR camera. Rare encounters scenario may occur and it would be a lost of opportunity not to photograph the thing happened in front of our eye as evidence.

Micro lens is important to capture photograph of small invertebrates.

Jumping spider photo before editing using Nikon D90 with  Tamron AF 90 mm F/2.8 micro lens and flash Di866 Nissin closed with lightbox
Edited using Lightroom


Zoom lens is important to capture medium to large size animal to observe at safe distance while capturing the photo. This includes mid range mammal and birds which are difficult to be caught.

Colugo photo captured in mid air with accurate focal length at the right time using
Nikon D90 with Tamron 70-300 mm zoom lens

Edited using Adobe Photoshop C5

Normal lens 105 mm are normally used to capture small mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians

Bats captured by mist net and hand held to take photographs
Gecko found on leaves 

The most important advice is focus on what animal you would like to take photos of and do not bring along all your different lens with you. Keep all photo that had been captured for your future use in using it for your book, articles and also someone else might request your precious photo to be included in their work. 

Sunday 3 February 2013

Dewan Kosmik: Kubong Semakin Terancam

Artikel mengenai alam kehidupan Kubong telah diterbitkan di dalam Dewan Kosmik Jilid 21/01 keluaran Januari 2013. Penulisan artikel ini bertujuan bagi menyebarkan ilmu mengenai Kubong melalui pendekatan menulis & membaca dalam bahasa rasmi negara. Adakah semua rakyat Malaysia mampu memahami penulisan dalam berbahasa Inggeris jika kebanyakan buku-buku ilmiah ditulis dalam bahasa inggeris..?




Anda hanya mampu menulis jika anda banyak memahami mengenainya, dan anda hanya mampu memahami mengenainya jika anda banyak membaca. 



Tanggungjawab siapa untuk menyampaikan ilmu kepada masyarakat tempatan jika bukan daripada masyarakat itu sendiri..?

...Sesungguhnya Allah tidak akan mengubah keadaan suatu kaum sebelum mereka mengubah keadaan diri mereka sendiri... (Ar-Ra'd, 13: 11)


Yang menariknya, apabila menulis artikel di dewan kosmik ini, saya mendapat RM300 sebagai honorarium 

Thursday 24 January 2013

Poster: Spiders of Malaysia (Labah-labah Malaysia)

The spider of Malaysia poster was designed and written in dual languages (English & Malay) to convey the knowledge on spiders to the Malaysian communities in an interesting way.


See spiders, remember this verse:

The likeness (analogy) of those who have taken other patrons (protector) than Allah (God), is the likeness of a spider, which makes itself a dwelling (house); and the weakest of all dwellings (house) is the dwelling (house) of a spider. Would that these people had knowledge. [Al-Ankabut, (spider), verse 41].
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Poster labah-labah Malaysia telah direka dalam bentuk yang menarik dan ditulis dalam dwi-bahasa (Bahasa Inggeris & Bahasa Malaysia) bagi memudahkan ilmu mengenai labah-labah disampaikan kepada  masyarakat Malaysia. 

Nampak labah-labah, ingat ayat ini:

Perumpamaan orang-orang yang mengambil pelindung selain Allah adalah seperti labah-labah yang membuat rumah. Dan sesungguhnya rumah yang paling lemah ialah rumah labah-labah, sekiranya mereka mengetahui (Al-Ankabut 29, 41).