Ox tail stew, Melbourne, Australia

Yummy 

Cottage

Spotted in Lilydale of Melbourne. I was in fact browsing for new land to purchase for retirement planning. This cottage was probably good for photography but not for investment lol.

Buddha

Taken by Nokton 58mm f1.4

Portrait of Svetlana

Taken at the backyard.

Grasshopper by A 300mm f2.8

Capewater Bay, Victoria, Australia

Nothing beats a casual visit to the coast. Light exposure improves mood.

More Car Show

Car Show

Sparkling day!

Tao Temple Ceiling

Waterfall of Honshu

Waterfall of my dream.

Show me your heart

Cormorant

Wet Lake Garda

This view reminded me of a time that I went to all sorts of places to get photographs under various types of weather.

The day was rather stormy with floods rampaging most Grampian National Park. The desolate look did remind something about life...

Rain often comes to the rescue when the drought has killed almost everything. Where is hope?

Moth Macro by Pentax A 200mm f4 macro

Spotted this the wall. Thanks to stun gun to flash this baby delirious. 

Eggman

This is one of the wall graffiti photo

King Salmon

This dish is so luxuriously seasoned. It made my day

Japanese Dishes

The images are all taken by Canon 50mm f1.2 L

The last couple of days are characterised by "happy go lucky" sentiment. Strolling the city without a purpose is a bit of fun really.

Joel and I tried out the many gourmet places to indulge ourselves. This dish is described as semi fried tuna abdomen with special sauce. It was very tender to taste melting at the tip of my tongue. Very nice in deed.

Seafood fried udon. It was a substitute for rice to improve satiety. But we really ordered too much...

Asparagus and bacon rolls. Very appetitising in deed. The sauce was too salty in fact. Joel spit out all the fat bits lol.

Good old sashimi to improve the fatty acid intake. There was this "oil" fish that gave us diarrhoea all day afterwards...

A bit of wine to colour the day. What a fulfilling day!

:)

Happy lot

This image is taken by Canon 135mm f2

Sometimes it is that magic moment that makes the image tick. I have never seen so many ladies smiling at me at once. What a feat :)

Nothing to say about work today. Just plain tough to start working after a long new year break!

Williamstown

This image is taken by Tokina 11-16mm f2.8

Yes, another day of freedom to waste. Strolling along the Williamstown port where there are many restaurants open and Gelatti shops for enjoyment.

The ship museum is as old as it can be with nothing new added to the actual diel engine ship. HMAS Castlemain. Amazed how this ancient piece of crap survived WWI at all...

Oh yes. I felt so patriotic after seeing the flag. That really works for me.

This piece of artefact is not child proof. In a time frame of 30 min, I saw two kids being hurt after the whole set spinning around by some other children. Kids and weapons are a no no combination.

This man was over enthusiastic about reliving the days of WWI. It was funny to see that everyone has a story to tell.

I just cannot resist to do some bokeh shot. Lacking meaning but love the ambiguity of the background blurr.

What a day. It was time to get some Chinese dumplings :)

Scooter

This image was taken by Leica 25mm f1.4

There is an emerging trend for people to ride scooters these days. It is a practice considered green and environmentally friendly. However, scooter shared the same mortality rate as people who ride motorcycles in which the mortality rate was being reported up to 50% in 2 years riding time.

Being a Leica lens owner, any image I took has to be converted to black and white, with high punchy contrast and harsh grain added to look like a piece of Leica work. Tha is a generalising statement but that is my view of Leica shooters in general.

Good to see that I have finally managed to utilise my holidays for something worthwhile.