Cosmos

This was from few days before rain is starting.  A cosmos in the back yard whcih was swinging little in the light wind. 


We had some good amount of rain (well, too much in some area) and quite bit of wind (bit gusty) in last couple of days.  And it looks like continue few more...


Good part is lot cooler than before. 




  
A bit of gear geek talk here.

I picked up this old manual focus lens ( Olympus OM Zuiko 35mm F2.8 , if you must know) and play around.

It was looked sharp on the screen at the back of camera, but I cannot get really sharp photo from this particular lens if wide open.   So... I treat it as a soft focus lens.   Other people in the photography forum world has reporting same thing.  So maybe the Zuiko 35mm was not quite sharp as other focal length Zuiko in the series. Who knows? 

I still love it, if I remember what to expect.

Have fun shooting!

Just before going dark

Chinese Garden

Bee on Sunflower

It's still quite hot to do anything under the sun in my standard, but those bees are busy correcting nectar.   I wonder they need a protection from sun like us...


PS. Getting feel of the OM Zuiko 100mm F2.8, whcih I just received a second hand copy, on my digital camera.  

Flags

Official NZ Flag, candidate for next one for display, airport flag and Nelson Provincial flag  at Nelson Airport.

Departure

Well it was very early morning...   It was still dark when we arrived at Airport. 

Golden Hour

Another frame from yesterday's sunset.
 

Yellow Circle

For park your bicycle.

Good Morning With Triple Shots!?

Steps

CBD

A View from the cathedral step.

Parking

We had some rain late last night through this morning...

It wasn't last long...

Where is rain

that the MetService keep telling us it will be rain for last few days and it's all gone somewhere.

instead, we've got another sunny day and interesting cloud to watch.



at Tahunaui Beach, Today.

Mobile Espresso

Love the graphics on this van.