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After two-and-a-half years later of journeying with my D200… it’s time to lay it to rest in the dry box. Not that the D200 was proving inadequate; I’d very gladly stick to it till its shutter dies, but its sensor had gone awry and it’d cost more than a third the price of a new D300 to get it replaced. I had waited a while, deliberating, but the white line problem was getting worse, and decided that there was no point in hesitating further. Camera and lens prices have been rocketing recently too, with the strength of the Yen. Had I gone to the shop last week, I would have saved a hundred bucks or so.
As tradition goes (D70, D200), I spent the day with my new D300 (duckfully named the Husky Express) at Sungei Buloh. It was a poor day for wader flight shots, compared to the previous Saturday, but it rained… finally! After all these weeks of nothing but the sun. I was at Venus Drive yesterday and walked through a patch of scorched earth, the site of a small bushfire a few days ago.
A water monitor wades past a flock of Common Redshanks and Little Egrets. The birds were hardly disturbed.
Grey heron in the rain
Buloh Main Bridge
