Hosier Lane Floral Mural for Mural Monday

 

Not common to see floral wall art in this lane

Sony A7RV

FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Mural Monday

Wiseria Season, Yarra Glen

 

Not full bloom but the pouring rain would have destroyed them later anyway.

At least no big crowd this year

Sony A7RIV

FE 14mm f1.8 GM

This is linking to Floral Friday and Seasonal

Lotus in Langwarrin, Melbourne, Australia

 

The summery feel with a wonderful bokeh

Sony A7RIV

FE 24mm f1.4 GM

Floral Friday

Hase-dera temple Japan

Very beautiful cherry blossum in a "floral temple"

Prunus

Spring is coming. In studies, pink has the best calming effect as a colour on its own.

Sure it has soothed me for the day.

Taken by Pentax Fa 77mm f1.8 limited

Foreground bokeh

The weather has been rather bad. This image was really just a messing around with foreground bokeh. Why?

Pentax lenses are usually better in the foreground bokeh department than background one...

Spring of Christmas Macro

This image is taken by A 200mm f4 Macro

4 seasons in one day. Melbourne is having a tantrum like a lady in menopause. With all friends leaving for festive season holidays (None of us really celebrate christmas), I managed to do 2 overseas shifts as well as reading a novel that I have made up my mind not finishing it. LOL.

Again, I think a photograph from the dying plant in my backyard would suffice for my blog. At least this is something!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Poppy Flower Wonder

This image is taken by Voigtlander 40mm f2 SL

This picture reminds me of a time that I would not buy any lens but voigtlander. That was a period where I was addicted to the build quality of Voigtlander lenses and their image rendering characteristics.

Yes, the brand is not all perfect and its own lens production line had been taken over by Cosina in Japan. The lenses are just so good to hold in my hands... Truely addictive.
Speaking of the bokeh, I used to have a set of criteria for assessing them. Then I looked at this image taken almost 3 years ago. I had second thoughts.

How on earth do I like the harsh edge bokeh with distracting specular highlights? I guess I have a growing up period with photography in general. Now this pair of critical eyes are very hard to please. I dreaded the day I would become even more grumpy and critical when I got even older. God helps me.