Jetty at Lorne

This is an image snapped with f2! Sharp from corner to corner. Yet the blue turns out soooo glistening beautiful in deed.

The trip to the region was manifested with drizzling rain and mulitple motor vehicle accidents.

Street Candid by Olympus ZD 150mm f2

A street performer that shows her attitude

This lens really get that interesting look.

Cordion Player

Among all my gears, Olympus gear is the one I simplify the most. My E520 camera body suffers some malfunction that I could not utilise this lens that much these days. I am in the process of looking for an E620 or E30 to use. However, the pricing is rather scary.

This chap is a very nice guy, playing the whole afternoon while I was dining my seafood risotto!

Shoes hanged

The shoes are hanged around the alleys of Melbourne. Something to look forward to everytime I visit the city.

It is reported that the shoes mark the spot for drug dealing

Snow River National Park

This is an image opposite to the cliff face I was standing on. The lighting condition was poor but I like the texture of the rock surface there and the colour from the grass.

What I am amazed with is the reproduction of the colour through white haze! This lens really shows me the strength in the area of vibrant colour rendering...

Turtle pops out its head

Grampians near Lake Gada. This thing is stunned by my presence, stopping its movement in the drizzle.

Water Skating

Another capture frozen in mid air!

Reeds

The rain was pouring. It was very overcast. The water surfaced up from the dried up lake. A sad look. Desolate and sad.

Thanks to the eratic exposure, the place looks alive!

Car Abstract

This was a view spotted from walking along Welling Parade in Melbourne.

Nice green colour and the lens copes with metallic highlights pretty well!

Dancing psychotic man

This korean man is dressing up for a cause. A good cause but I never know what it is!

He has been doing the basking for about a year or so. Always dancing around violently shaking all joints. A little disturbing. Yes. Everyone stares at him.

In this shot, his whole body vibrates. Only f2 manages to get his face sharp. The rest of the image is suffering motion blurs.

So you get the juice that this man is a little more than weird...

Wakeboarding flight

I have to confess that I have not used this lens for quite some time. Surprisingly, this lens works nicely when I decide to take a walk on Dockland, Melbourne. The wake boarding contestants are skating with lightening speed. Comparing to my friend, Joel's Nikon D90, I failed to capture as many as he could have.

However, I did get lucky with a few. Here is one of them. Nice and crisp for a change!

Acrobatic Swing

On a sunny day, blown highlight is really a problem on E520. However, the photograph does turn out reasonable converting to B+W

The whole torso was captured frozen in the air.

Little River Falls at Snow River National Park

This lens has been "misused" to take a long exposure shot on a tripod. Hehe. This would make a lot of Olympus user hating my guts for using a fast glass on a long exposure shot.

To be honest, I hiked a long long distance to reach this Australian Version of "Grand Canyon". The waterfalls dissappears in Summer time as the water flow ceases in the creek.

However, the shot was taken at the end of winter wet months. I had the luck to capture this in sight!

Again, long exposure time on ZD 150mm f2 would require 2 stop underexposure to avoid complete white out of the water flow. No neutral density is used as I could not really afford 82mm filter just for this purpose...

Protest for poverty

This gentleman spoke of good English and protested against the poverty which was so prevalent around the world.

Somehow he was escorted by policemen to one side eventually. He was a peaceful man and showing very nice attitude towards photographer!

You can see his facial details very clear here with good tone rendering there. I find ZD 150mm f2 great for B+W photographs. Very punchy B+W stuff when the coloured version seems a little too muted colour.

Roos in Country Victoria of Australia

In Hall's Gap, there were quite a few of them staring at us. Joel and I had picked one of the worst weathers in the whole year to do this trip.
This fellow has a lot of fascination towards us. Not begging for food. Just constantly hopping around in a circle and turning its head towards us.
The rain was easing to a degree and I took this baby lens of mine to snap a shot or two on this wild animal. On Olympus E520 body, the autofocus is continuously hunting with inability to lock the focus due to so many annoying branches and leaves. In the end, I settle on pressing the pre-focus buttons on the Oly 150mm f2 to get my focus right. Sigh... Modern technology is sometimes not as good as manual focus at all.
That evening, we had kangaroo meat for dinner. Low fat and low cholesterol. A little too gamy due to lack of seasoning...

Galah - naughty little thing

This fellow has been tailgating me for quite some time. I got no food but malice towards birds that constantly tried to drop pooh on me. In my culture, it is considered good luck when I am in good mood; not so good luck when I am in bad mood. So this bird is not really welcome today.

As soon as My olympus 150mm f2 is taken out of the bag and this bird seemed a little frightened that this was not food! I wished this lens was a rocket launcher to shoot the bird. Somehow, Olympus 150mm f2 locks its focus on the bird reasonably well. A little slow to track this bird though and I pressed the pre-focusing stopper button to lock the focus. So here it is. A mug shot of this criminal that contributed to negative symptoms of bi-polar traits.

The blurr was not so bad either. Trust me, I am not really a birder person.

Donkey - pretends to be sleeping

This funny creature has been tailgating my car on Raymond Island, Victoria, Australia. The island is quite desolate and this donkey seemed pretty much wild. It was keeping quite a bit of distance from me and I had to approach it with my feet gently moving forwards.

The high contrast environment seems to be a tough task on Olympus 150mm f2. However, the highlight is not really blown out at all. I think this is because of the distance from the subject to camera being quite long to reduce this problem.

I like the bokeh though. :)

Joel - my best friend

He is kind of annoyed because I snapped this shot. At Federation square when he was about to whinge about his olympus E3 camera :)

Snow River National Park Cliff

This rock face really reminds me of an old volcano era where dinosaurs reigned the land. So rough and arid. So much colour with touch texture to it.

This cliff face was way beyond where I stood in eastern part of victoria.

What a clarity of image despite the long distance!

Greek Dance

This was an event that took place in Federation Square. The dance was rather exhausting by this group of dancers. They perspired and they struggled to breathe.
The day was rather harsh with sun light that olympus 150mm f2 does not seem to adapt to the high contrast scenes too well. Quite a few images were prone to the clipping as the result of this type of lighting setting.