SLOVENIA HOLIDAY. BLED

European crabapple?

Drinking trough for horses?

Bled Castle at dawn.

Empty shops in the morning.

Feeling lucky?

Morning has broken like the first morning.

 

Let sleeping swan lie.

The rain cometh.

Restaurant at Castle Bled.

View of town from Castle Bled.

Lower courtyard of Castle Bled.

Austria and the Alps yonder.

 

Fossilised Fish at Castle Bled Museum.

Deer was aplenty.

Ancient loo at highest level of Castle Bled.

Castle Bled chapel

Pulpit.

Castle exit/entrance.

 

Pletnas await.

Lake Bled's resident ducks.

Bled Island, only island in Slovenia.

 

Murals in the Church of Assumption.

Baroque styled Pulpit.

 

House of the Provost.

St. Mary.

99 steps leading up to the Church.

Rowing in synchrony

Postcard scenery.

 

Popular local flower.

Original Bled cream cake, loved and lost.

Bled Castle at noon.

Roadside flower.

Turkish dance troupe getting ready.

 

WATERLILIES

These flowers were shot handheld with the D800 mounted with the 105 vr m.nikkor.

Nikon D800 & 85mm F1.8G lens

Just got the new D800, tested the camera and the new 85mm at Bukit Jugra near Banting and Morib. Must say that both equipment performed to my expectations even though all frames were shot handheld.

Riot-control vehicle.

Same type found at the Insitu Museum, at the foot of Bukit Jugra.

The museum, Insitu Jugra.

A miniature specie of macaque found at the summit of Bukit Jugra.(cropped)

Granite mill stone for extracting sugarcane juice. 18th century.

Note the dynamic range in the covered part of the boat.

Morib Beach was used by the Brit colonist to land troop & equipment after the Japanese Surrender.

Boat Winch.

Low tide.

Awaiting the high tide to go out.

Fiddler crabs beside dicarded insense burner.(cropped)

Mud skipper. (cropped)