These are the new young leaves.

This is an old leaf.

This is a sick leaf.

In our human life, we are also facing the same phases.
1.  We were born.
2.  We get older and older (this process never stops, but sometimes we did not feel that it is happening).
3.  We get sick sometimes.
4.  Eventually, we are going to leave this world.

Each dried leaf is unique.  Even they have lost their lives, but what happened during their lifetimes were recorded based on their shapes and colours.

They might have been bitten by worms or micro organism which left holes on their bodies.  Their sizes and shapes would be determined by what nutrients they had gotten.

Eventually, they turn into compose and mix with the soil on the ground.

Same things happen to human beings.

The food that we have taken and the exercises that we have done can be seen on our body.  And the good deeds and bad things done by us are recorded somewhere in our spirit and will be reflected in our future lives.

I enjoy looking at the different types of leaf, dried or alive, each of them has their own unique story.

The most challenging part in taking a closeup photo of a flower is the control of its background.  I always try to keep the background simple, unless the background tell some stories.

It was hard to avoid the reflection on the picture above, however, I made it as dark as possible.

All these photos were taken using my mobile phone camera.

Taking the macro photos of part of the flowers was easy, I just turned to the correct mode, and put the lens as close as possible.

We were jogging for 3 km non stop, and we had this photo session while we were taking a break.  The pond was not big, but it took us at least half an hour observing and clicking our camera shutters.

Someone came and watched what SiewPeng and I were doing.  He stopped for about 30 seconds and went away.

It was a sunny Sunday morning, the water lilies were ‘relaxing’ inside the pond.  However, we jogged for another round before we left the park.

Young leaves and flowers were taking turns to express themselves.   From the photo, they were still in the muddy pond, but days later, they are going out of the mud and bloom beautifully.

This flower is very tiny.  I suspect it is a type of mini dandelion.  The seeds might fly in the wind when they are matured.

This is the same flower but it has not bloomed.  A fly were stopping on it.

Even it is a small pond, if we observe it carefully, we can find many stories of “life” inside it.  While we were looking at the frogs, flowers and the water reflection, all of them were watching us too.  We don’t hurt each other, but say hello to them and promise that we will take the best photo of them.

Hi!  I am a metamorph!  Nice to meet you!

Initially, we thought that this was a toad because of its dark colour.

However, after we have checked in a fact book about frogs which provides the comparison details between a frog and a toad, we found that this little creature does not match the features of a toad.  Therefore, Colin did some research on the Internet and found that it is called metamorph.

There were quite a lot of metamorphs in the pond.  We are now full of expectations to see all of them change into those cute little green frogs!

After 3.2 km of non-stop jogging, we stopped to have a rest.  A distance away, there is a small man-made pond in the park.  In the pond, there were frogs.  The one photographed above was one of them.

We usually just walk pass the pond but this time, the water lilies that were blooming beautifully in the pond have attracted us to move closer and take a look.  That was when we found that the water lilies were not the only living thing in the pond.

There were many frogs in the pond apparently.  However, we only saw two of them who looked alike.  After some discussion, we have learned that the others were metamorphs and we think that they will grow into these frogs soon.

The water lily and the frog.

The frog stayed quite still during most of the photography session until it suddenly hopped away.  We were not sure why he did that but fortunately we could still get some more pictures of him.

This was the other frog in the pond.  He was bigger in size.

This is how the man-made pond looks like.  Next, we will be showing you the pictures of metamorphs and some other things that we have captured from the pond.

We decided to take an unusual route as our jogging path,
while we were warming up by walking slowly at the first round,
… … … …we found this fishbone-shaped dried leaf.