The Bouquet

The Bouquet

Taken with a prime (fixed) lens at f/2.2 produces some nice bokeh to the image. I love the mood that the colour produces.

Creepy

Creepy

A giant insect crawling on the ground. I had to kneel down to get close to this fellow. There was not enough light when the insect was in the shade so when it wander into the sunny side, I then tried to get as many good picture as I can with a higher speed shutter.

The Curve

The Curve

Another path along the hanging rocks track. This one is even more curvy. What really interest me was the shadow and the tall slender trees ahead.

Window of The Cave

Window of The Cave

Similar to the previous picture. This one was taken with a different composition and different post processing.

Stucked Rock

Stucked Rock

A rock stucked in the middle of two bigger cliff. Has some dry plant growing on its side.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw

Jigsaw of rocks. This one is stacked too nicely though.



Jigsaw puzzles were originally created by painting a picture on a flat, rectangular piece of wood, and then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw, hence the name. John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and engraver, is credited with commercialising jigsaw puzzles around 1760^[1]. Jigsaw puzzles have since come primarily to be made on cardboard.

There are also three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles. Many of these are made of wood or styrofoam and require the puzzle to be solved in a certain order; some pieces will not fit in if others are already in place. Also common are puzzle boxes: simple three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles with a small drawer or box in the center for storage.

Another type of jigsaw puzzle, a kind of cross between 2-D and 3-D puzzles, is a puzzle globe. Like a 2-D puzzle, a globe puzzle is often made of cardboard and the assembled pieces form a single layer. Like a 3-D puzzle, the final form is a three-dimensional shape. Most globe puzzles have designs representing spherical shapes such as the Earth, the Moon, and historical globes of the Earth.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Overexposed Little Stuff

Overexposed Little Stuff

The little flowers that overexposed my shots. Had to lower exposure from the raw file and do double masking in photoshop.

Barren Tree

Barren Tree

Taken near the summit of the hanging rocks track. This tree looks dead and cold.

Patriotism

Patriotism

This is a shot of Ian. Not patriotism of like "US" patriotic kind but its more of like "Canon" patriotism. See how proud he was holding his Canon 30D.

In June 1934 they released their first camera, the Kwanon (see "Origins of company name" below). Three variations of this product were marketed, however, none were actual products. Of the ten Kwanon cameras that were rumored to be produced, none were ever known to reach the market.

The new company was off to a good start. However, there was a problem: Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory had not developed a lens. Several alternatives were considered, but the decision was made to seek help from a corporation known as Nippon Kogaku Kogyo (Japan Optical Industries, Inc., the predecessor of Nikon) to use their Nikkor lens. So in February 1936, the Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory was able to release the "Hansa Canon (Standard Model with the Nikkor 50 mm f/3.5 lens)", which became Kwanon's first commercially available camera.

The following year the company name was changed to Canon to reflect a more modern image, and on 10 August 1937, the current corporation was founded.^[1]

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Matchstick

Matchstick

Reminds me of a giant match stick ready to be burnt. The image is very contrasty due to the harsh sunlight, but it gives the "matchstick" burnt look.

Up Hill Tough

Up Hill Tough

A stretch of tarmac between the tall trees at the Hanging rocks.

Tandoor Stones

Tandoor Stones

This one was up at the Hanging rocks site. The "mountain" of rocks spurring up were more than these but were not able to be captured in one photo unless I had a wider lens.

The title was influenced by the way how it sounds rather than what it means.



A tandoor is a cylindrical clay oven used in Transcaucasus, the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, in which food is cooked over a hot charcoal fire. Temperatures in a tandoor can approach 480°C (900°F), and it is common for tandoor ovens to remain lit for long periods of time to maintain the high cooking temperature. The tandoor design is something of a transitional form between a makeshift earth oven and the horizontal-plan masonry oven, and is used almost exclusively for live-fire, radiant heat cooking.

Tandoor is used for cooking certain types of Indian, Irani, and Pakistani food, such as tandoori chicken and bread varieties like tandoori roti and naan. (The word tandoori is the adjective form.) It is also known as a tonir in Armenian which is a widely used method of cooking barbecue and lavash bread. In Georgia it is called a tone and is used for bread and kebab.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Interlocking Rocks

Interlocking Rocks

We adventorously entered this cave to see what's in there. Well, Some large rocks that interlocked with each other and an end that leads to an exit at the other side. The thought of that small crack will tighly close up all the gaps between the rocks longers as we snapped out Canons off.

Over The Balcony

Over The Balcony

Melbourne's so foggy these few days. Plane cancelled, me not being able to see the streets below from the 29th floor. Well, I grab a picture when there was very little fog. I planned to take the sunset but i missed it. But a pleasant surprise was that The lights after sunset is nicer (dark dark blue sky). The fog that blankets the building give a nice warm orang halo around the city. Took a couple of exposure (longest of about 90sec) and then combined them with photoshop. Used old square masking technique. Photomatix fail me this time.

Log of Wood

Log of Wood

A fallen log of wood by the path side. I was interested by the hole developing in the centre of the log and the patterns and texture its creating out of it.

That Way Ahead

That Way Ahead

A path leading up to the summit of hanging rocks.

As Bendy As Tree

As Bendy As Tree

This was again taken during the hanging rocks trip last year (2007). I like the smooth tarmac of the trail there which meander among the trees. This shot has some saturation adjustment + dodging and burning.

Webby Dry

Webby Dry


A picture taken during a trip to the Hanging rocks last year. This one shows some flora with webs running across it. The reason for the square cropping is to attract the eye to the flora and not the other distracting background.

Mdm Binte

Mdm Binte

It was someone's genius to ask her to use the scarf as a very strong props. The addition of the cross necklace really gives some controversy to the picture. Most people will conclude that she looks like a Muslim, but the addition of the cross contradicts.

V For Violin

V For Violin

The title refers to the V shaped of Avi's pointed chin. I discovered that the hard thing to shoot of someone playing the violin is that they will all seem to be sleeping.