Pork Confit gone wrong!

This supposed to be a delight with delicate fat to melt on the tongue. Instead, this spanish restaurant was all failure through and through. Look at that thickness of uncooked fat!!! What a rip off. This was at Warrambool.

Bridge Street 2 - Graffiti

Quite a few photographs simply snapping the wall graffiti. They are truely incredible to view.

Very Australian history themed here

It was really a cold day by Melbourne standard. So glad that I got my desktop fixed after 1 year of using sad little laptop that will hang the screen everytime I opened up a browser...

Bridge St Melbourne Breakfast

Torch is reknown for coffee. It has a good reputation. The visit to the place was quite an unusual expereince on its own. The coffee smell filled the air. It was just heavenly.

The menu looks great with a large selection of dishes to pick from

My omlette was with basil pesto. Very aromatic.

The place was rather made a country style with a touch of homeliness.

Me Me Me

At Lord Arch. The weather was fantastic for a photo :)

Bay of Martyrs

This shot took us 2 hours to search this spot and waited for the sun set for consecutive 2 days. Well, it makes my day!

Emu attack

It was funny that Joel and I were tailgated by the emu lot. So we end up hiding back into the 4WD and chase them back!!!!!

Fusion dish, Kobe Jones, Dockland

It was once said ...

Fusion cuisine is something when a chef is not well trained in 2 fields, combining half learnt skill from 2 styles of cuisine...

Sad existence.

However, this one did taste great. A bit of Japanese and French.

Kobe Jones, Dockland., Melbourne.

Rowing Boat

As usual, this tricky fellow took me to this particular E. coli infested Yarra river making an adventure out of paddling a semi-sunken canoe. The freezing temperature of the surrounding did trigger the hybernation reflex in my system. However, listening to him talking about all the hallucinogenic dreams of wise investment in wind power energy does strike me that he could be a likely green party supporter. Despite all these uninvited stimulus on a cold afternoon, this made my day...

The tender brachiradialus muscle released endorphine for my extremely addictive nature. That came unexpectedly.

The wet thigh from osmosis of water deriving from bottom of the canoe gave me that spinothalamic tract seizure. I did feel alive.

The familiar nagging and hassling from an old time friend really made the experience worthwhile.

This picture was a snap look on how I remembered about him from many years ago.

Though you were on the flight back home. Leonid, you are home to my lost soul.

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

The light abstract

A back lit photo. Yet, it does create that mundane feeling about it.

I was with Leonid and the weather allows great conversation to take place.

Leonid, stop nagging me about driving too fast or give way to L platers. I know how to drive :P

Leonid - My friend

My good friend for many years. Haematologist!

We were inseparable in medical schools. He then left for US without any news ever since. Now a dad of 4 children. Good that he is now back in touch!

In participation for the art blog meme face off Art Blog Link

Lobster Paela

Good food never fails to imrpove depression scale :)

Toro- adbomen part of the fish

Beautiful dish tried at Nobu. Refreshing and wonderful tasting.

:)

A glimpse of Sun

A little gap in the cloud reveals the arid nature of Australian landscape

Love Lamb

Delicious food :)

Beef Tendon Stew Soup

Tendon is good for skin and repair :)

This Greek lamb stew is beautiful

What a smile!

The smile is priceless.

King Salmon

This dish is so luxuriously seasoned. It made my day

Brighten Beach View

The image is taken by Voigtlander 58mm f1.4 SLII

The view was spetacular though lacking colour and high contrast. However, the flare in the distance is coped very well with such a medium priced range lens.

Great Wall of China

The undulating view of the wall always gives that feel of geometrical wonder.

Pergola

This is taken by Pentax Fish Eye 10-16mm

Who says Fish Eye lens being quite bizarre and obsolete in photography?

I love twisted view just like how I view almost everything else in life.

Bewildered! What a view!

Temple via fish eye view

This is a high contrast image out of Voigtlander 12mm f5.6 which has that dramatic effect of wide perspective. The two people included in the image were my old photography pals. The image is a little desaturated to enhance that feeling of aged old look.

ONE in four Victorians think driving 10km over the speed limit in a 100km zone is socially acceptable.

Porcelain Doll

Quite a lot happened to my life last few days. This shot was taken to reveal the bokeh performance of Voigtlander 40mm f2 SL

You can see that the specular highlights turn out quite nastily...

I really want to get a Leica 50mm f1.4 now...

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...

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!

:)

Spider Macro

This image is taken by Voigtlander 125mm f2.5 macro APO Lanthar

Life is busy at the moment. Good to be occupied in fact.  This photo was taken a while back when I still had that obsession with insects in general. Sometimes it is amazing to see the extent I really want to get this sort of image spending hours of tracking and snapping to get this desirable outcome. You might not be aware that this macro lens is legendary. Yet, I have sold it to a Melbourne enthusiastist. This lens has absolute no fringeing and smoothest bokeh among all macro lenses. The colour rendition is clean and clear. Very mesmerising lens in deed.

Street photography is still my thing. Yet, it is so hard to pick this up after 3 years of non shooting. Somehow I am confident that I will pick it with the help of friends :)

The top name for boy baby is Jack and girl baby is Ruby last year.

Another McDonald is robbed in Melbourne. This is very spooky.

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.

New Year Boredom

This image is taken by Canon 50mm f1.2L

It was a very boring day. No shops were open and there were no festivities except rubbish on the ground everywhere. Lucky, there were shops that were usually open 24 hours a day that ended up closed on New Year's Day. So I got to see the actual graffiti on these store facades.

Then I accompanied Joel for trialing out his new camera and range finder lenses. Good to see him paying so much concentration into these mundane objects of the streets.

When I spotted this lady walking pass me, I had a chill. I thought I was revisiting the scenes of Lord of the Rings. She really made me frighten for my life today...

A little trialing with bokeh shot: Damn harsh and ugly. But why not? There was nothing else to photograph.

Yes, luckily this cafe was located. We had the daily dose of Latte before terminating this boring New Year's Day!!!!