Macedon Ranges stroll

A casual walk in Macedon Ranges. The green is so lush and shining. Quite impressive.

Wilson Promotory Estuary

Wilson Prom estuary

It has a peculiar pattern within the frame.

South Peninsula Highway scenery

The drive can bring interesting view :)

Graveyard after storm

A little spooky from all the burnt dead people's money

Fungi

Fungi on dead wood. The walk in Daylesford is kind of fun. Love the casual walk.

Foster Beach

The pleasure to visit serene beach is to get the moment to stay true.

Coffee Machine

This cafe has painted this coffee machine beautifully. Acland street has that art deco feel whenever I took a walk there.

Kind of looking like abstract

Kind of really busy lately. This was a capture from a creek side that had the special look to it.

Graffiti mural, Melbourne, Australia - Part1

Graffiti can be artistic. Like this one. It was spotted in Richmond, Melbourne. The space to create this mural is within 30 cm wide alley for an artist to do this. Incredible, isn't it?

Taken by Pentax 31mm f1.8 limited.

Floating rocks, great ocean road, Australia

This is an image that I think black and white version would show the dynamic elements in the frame better. The rocks look like mushroom almost.

Taken by Pentax fa 31mm

Squid in Bonito sauce

In one of the cafe located in QV, I had a Entree dish to taste.

It was a taste in heaven where the sauce was the concentrated dried skip-jack tuna fish (Katsuwonus pelamis, sometimes referred to as bonito ). It was a good addition to a small glass of sake in deed.

QV is a significant location in Melbourne CBD. It is a redevelopment of historic Queen Victoria Women's hospital site. Now it is a popular commercial central to various food courts and fashion clothing stores.

The image was taken by Pentax 31mm ltd

Lady Talbot Drive

Prior to the major bush fire at Marysville Victoria, Lady Talbot drive used  to be a photography safe heaven for me. The place was quiet, ambient and peaceful except some annoying mosquito at times. 

Of course, the creek was no longer there. The place had been turned into an arid rugged landscape with some left over burnt tree trunks.

Now I realised how precious these photographs meant to me ...

They were all shot with stacking of neutral density filters with Pentax k20d. Funny how people criticised this camera so much but I still could get many photographs done with reasonable quality.

I still recalled how my fellow photographer pals call me a bad dud to ruin the natural beauty by over use of neutral density filters. But this is a record of how experimental I was at the time  :)

Typical Australian landscape lighting condition: Terrible green with non reflecting surface of ferns. The high contrast background, awkward orientation of sunlight and the abundance of UV :(

Cascade waterfall

It was a freezing day. Very nice neutral density shot of this view :)

Frankston sand dune

A visit to Frankston

A drive to Frankston. This calamari was good to start the day :)

So creamy. It was yummy.

Sun set at Pinnacle

Sun set at the same spot every year. Wind was severe and chilly. Yet the direction of lighting was always on the  wrong side. Lucky though there was a quick shit storm straight after this shot.

Fireworks above Federation Square

No tripod. No long exposure. Just a simple snap!

Graffiti

Melbourne central sky light window

It still looks the same as many years ago

Kris