While a visit to the Rhododendron garden, snapshot like this is often quite fun. This was taken during the days I was obsessed with Pentax Fa limited lenses. Fa 43 is a bit of mysterious lens that pops with a particular optic arrangement.
This kind of cafe atmosphere is what makes suburban Melbourne Cafe attractive - Cafe culture. f1.2 bokeh gave this sense of atmosphere. Maybe my severe myopia gave me this kind of depth of view most of the time.
So nostalgic about this shoot. This was my first paid shoot and it ended up on a local chain store newsletter. A lot of blown highlights and ugly distracting background. But it reminds me the try hard I was once to be