Yep, everyone should have in their collection a photo of a bee and everyone should have a photo of an Agapanthus flower as well. So it’s two in one

The Shoe Flower is a member of the Hibiscus family and can be seen all over Asia. Here in Sri Lanka it’s known as ‘Sapattu Mal (සපත්තු මල්)’, and you can see many differently colored varieties.

What you see in the first picture are the opposite sides of a fiber glass water tank being pressed together, separated only by a 50mm PVC pipe and a float switch. They were originally about a meter apart but now they are being crushed together. The tank has imploded. A fiber glass water thank isn’t all that easy to crush. If you roll it on to it’s side and stand on it you will only make a small dent that springs back the moment you step off. It takes a truely massive force to do this and that force was generated by water itself. No not water inside the tank but outside!

This fiber glass tank is an underground water storage tank. It  was placed in a concrete enclosure. Ground water or rain water had gradually crept into the enclosure. That in itself is not a problem as long as pressure inside the tank is equal to the pressure outside. Water from this tank is pumped into an overhead tank the process being automated with float switches. When that happens fresh water flows into the tank from the Municipal supply albeit at a lower rate than the outflow. As a result a pressure difference builds up and the tank shrinks a little bit The process continues until the pipes are damaged and the system stops working. That’s when you discover that something has gone wrong

Here is another dew on flower cliche photo

Morning dew on a red flower. The name of which I know not

It’s not a satellite earth station but part of a flower. I believe it’s called ‘Stamens’, but please do correct me if I am wrong, botany is my weakest subject.

Over the Christmas holidays I took more than 500 photos with a Micro Nikkor and have about a 100 keepers. Going to bore you with them over the coming weeks. But don’t worry I will throw in a few non macro photos in between

May you have a happy , peaceful and prosperous new year.

What does this image have to do with the new year? It shows a lush green paddy field, which is a sign of good things to come