Photo Diary
I visited the Moreton Island. The helicopter ride gets me this wonderful image.
Busy walking around the city of Brisbane at night. So far over 2k photos in the past 3 days. I gonna hit the top notch cocktail bar tonight - Death and Taxes Death and Taxes
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Lake Tyrrell is my regular spot for a sunset snap. Strictly speaking, it is a reverse sunset I am snapping. The word Tyrrell in first nation language means "expanse" or "Space".
Day 2 in Brisbane, I have captured tons of photos. So unmotivated to attend this conference that does not do updates as they should have. I will aim to explore the sunshine coast tomorrow.
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This is linking Tom's Sign2
Tree of life light up in Swan Hill - a treasure
I am day 1 in Brisbane. The hotel does not allow check in until 15 pm. That is a bit late compared to the average check in time around 13 pm.
I might not be able to post because I will be visiting Moreton Island for some ship wreck snapping opportunities.
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Laowa 9mm f5.6
Linking Treasure Tuesday
For the past 2 weeks, I only managed to spot this interesting event
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Laowa 9mm f5.6
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This was quite dazzling in the laser room
Taken in one frame long exposure
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This is a wonderful event where the light up scene is reminiscent of local aboriginal culture.
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FE 24mm f1.4 GM
Linking Tom's Sign2
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Mural Monday event features an Asian theme of an old wise man.
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FE 14mm f1.8 GM
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This is near the river mouth in Taipei district. It looks somewhere in a tropical island. In fact, it is next to ugly concrete jungle.
An illusion
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FE 14mm f1.8 GM
Linking Sunday Best
This was one of my usual candid shots in the area. Somehow the signs do pop a little.
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FE 24mm f1.4 GM
Linking Tom's Sign2
This bird was the first name I was taught by my neighbour when I first arrived in Australia.
Just in front of my house on a tree in the park
Linking Saturday's Critter
Kilcunda is becoming more popular for photographers. It is an ideal location to get full milkyway belt above that particular dune.
However, this place caused me a lot of incidents - camera drowned in that very river, tripod getting taken into the sea, hand and leg lacerations etc. I am told that all haunted places either have a lot of moisture or underground water source.
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Canon 14mm f2.8
Linking Sky watch Friday
I snapped this while I was waiting for my 28-dollar meat pie in the queue.
This is from the show a month ago.
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FE 200-600mm f5.6-6.3
Linking Randomosity and Treasure Tuesday
This was one of the gallery events in Bendigo where I live for the past 10 years.
This was done in a way I like it.
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The mirror is not really clean. But it will do for a click.
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FE 20-70mm f4
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It looks more like the artist was on LSD of some sort
I gonna stay at home for the entire day. Getting a new central heating in the house. I have waited for 4 months for it.
Seen in Taipei Street
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Last weekend, it was a trip to this haunted house due to severe storm in Melbourne.
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Linking Sunday Best
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Laowa 9mm f5.6
Linking Sky Watch Friday
Somehow, I like the view. It was something memorable in my hike in middle Taiwan
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Sigma 105mm f2.8 Macro
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This was in an abandoned factory in Fairfield before it was demolished
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FE 135mm f1.8
Linking Tom's Sign2
This was a sculpture in a park where an indigenous woman swinging her hair like a shampoo ad.
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This was one of the murals on my trip in Taipei Taiwan. A boring central district but a stroll on the graffiti street was fun. It took a while to find.
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FE 14mm f1.8 GM
Linking Mural Monday
This was during the late March where the cherry blossom season was almost over. I still managed to get a frame in the farm there.
Easter gave me a break from working hard in the past week. Somewhat I had a moment of existential crisis. It is much less of a problem now as I just focus on the things I can control.
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FE 14mm f1.8 GM
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Back beach Mornington Peninsula
That is the sunset I want to see
Pity the entire Easter will be quite stormy. I gonna find something else to do.
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FE 14mm f1.8 GM
Linking Sky Watch
It has been so busy trying to catch up on work and friendships.
This was taken in Lake Tyrrell.
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FE 16-35mm f2.8 GM
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The sign says pray for goodness in life
Not sure if it was a cow above it or a reindeer. Never mind.
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Nice patterns on the lanterns when I tried to have some nice XiaoLongBao ( a version of thin skinned soup dumplings)
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FE 14mm f1.8 GM
Linking Tom's Treasure Tuesday
A typical Japanese style underwear worn by most silver hair in Japan. The mural suggests a gambling problem running away from Mahjong.
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FE 14mm f1.8
Linking Mural Monday
These rocks are made of Marbles. The tunnel was made in 1950s. A lot of veterans died in building this tunnel. Swallows are everywhere around here.
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FE 14mm f1.8 GM
Linking Sunday Best
Just in time coming back to Melbourne stormy weather. A nice stormy weather before sunrise in Melbourne North.
There are 1 giga of travel photos in my hard disc. I gonna process them gradually over time. Funny that I received a call from my good pal for a nice Japanese dinner in the city. It is true that friends are older the better. I miss the home feeling.
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FE 70-200mm f2.8 GM
Linking Skywatch Friday
I am back to Australia. A good 3-week break and a digital detox not by choice lol.
The walk and hike around the mountains in mid Taiwan were really relaxing. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Problem of going away for a few weeks is that a significant amount of work built up over time. There were a lot of bills to pay while I had zero income for these weeks. Life goes on!
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FE 14mm f1.8 GM
Linking Randomosity
This is one of the facades in the memorial hall for one of the leaders in Taiwan.
Given all the troubles with blogger, I will rest the blogging until I get home. I will still comment and visit other blogs that I am "allowed" to visit too.
I will be back 3 weeks later. On Monday to Wednesday, I will be joining a team to hike in the mountains. I hope my fitness level is up for it.
It is quite difficult to even post on blogspot. I have scheduled all the photo posts on the other street photography 3 weeks ahead. Here, I was planning to post it day by day. Very often, the editing platform just crashed for no apparent reasons either.
Getting home to my home town in Taipei is always a nightmare. Everyone seems to want to borrow money for their own family dysfunction. I am not a bank. It is really getting to me that things have to get ugly.
I also learnt that I cannot even copy and paste my blog link address to all the weekly event either. I miss my original structure back in Australia. Humans only thrive on restructure. Constant innovation does not bring stability.
Olympus 150mm f2
Linking Saturday Critter
So hard to do blogging or commenting without my usual laptop. Doing on the phone is quite a hard thing to do.
Posting a shot from last weekend since I can only process and work on the photos after I get back to Australia.
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FE 200-600mm f5.6-6.3
Linking Skywatch Friday
I would be already on the plane when this is posted. Posting this in a rush for the night traffic near Melbourne Dockland.
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Laowa 9mm f5.6
Linking Wordless Wednesday
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This is taken during a low tide at Brighton's beach. The night scenery is not bad.
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FE 70-200mm f2.8 GM
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