What is up?

Taken at Snow River National Park. It was so well disguised that I hardly noticed the creature.

However, I spotted him and he spotted me...

Flower field

Flowers add a sense of postive energy to the incoming spring

Egret

The instinct - to prey.

Is spring near?

A tough of light on a petal of flower - surreal and simple. This is exactly where I want to put my heart to.

Hover Fly

This Fly is so elusive to catch - not standing still at all. Taking ages to take a snap at it. Its life is definitely more busy than mine!!

Eureka Tower

A perspective to look up great things ...

Cricket

Cricket game: one is dozzing off and the other is highly strung ...

Direction of Life

In Oriental Folk Belief, west directs to afterlife and east directs to energy of life.

Fengshui wise, one of the general rules for bed orientation is to head east rather than west.

Maybe this is all to do with the ego of Oriental Culture ...

Magic Hour

Sunset is the magic hour, colouring the sky into golden hue. Unfortunately, I do not see sunset too often because work never finishes at 4 30 pm for me - A modern society disease.

The best sunset would be by the beach or by a grass field. It would be so refreshing ...

However, this photo just reminds me to be satisfied with what I have rather than constantly looking for something I do not have ...

Withering

Dark and Shades of Grey.

Flowers blossom and wither
Leaves grow and fall
It is what it is
Questions will lead to another question

A world we live in

Street Mural

Walking along the Little Colin St in Melbourne. I saw this mural. It looked melodramatic and stunning at the same time. A modern city with this semi-artistic graffiti on the wall - kind of its own strong presence somehow. Maybe this was all the after-effect of large cup of Latte I had that morning...

Colour of the bottles

Colourful spirits. what else do we need?

In fact the green bottle is made from kiwi fruit!! I am going to open my lemonceli from Capri Island now ... Yum

Butterfly Mirage by Pentax A* 200mm f4 macro

A wanderer - in brown disguise. Its life span short and it will probably not survive this freezing weather. Still, it is still trying to survive, continue to endeavour til the last moment ...

Taken K10d A* 200 macro

Big bite by Pentax Fa* 80-200mm f2.8

What a great bite! In a society where teenagers are all getting quite anorexic, this image is quite reassuring.

Taken by Pentax k10D

Glass mirage by Pentax Fa 77mm ltd f1.8

A shot at La Porchetta. Sunset colour glistens through these glasses. Yes, there are some axial background blurr due to aperture blades from Fa 77 ltd lens. The mood is somewhat melodramatic. No, I was not drinking the beer or wine. Just glaring through these glasses, sitting alone in the restaurant: I remembered a wonderful book called "the God of small things" that makes one to wonder how life could be so rich if we are being perspicacious!

Flow of time

I remember the day when I was young, Dad used to take me to a creek 40 km out of city in Taipei. It was never the scenery or the water that interested me. It was the BBQ meat Dad prepared as a chef from work that I longed for having a good bite at them.

The water melon immersed in these cold freezing water was so refreshing and delicious. Same as the day I went for a short walk. Nostalgia hits me hard. I missed Dad and I could only remember his coarse hands scarred with partial burn, giving me chunks of meat well cooked and seasoned .... All I did was to grab the meat without thanking him for it ....


He passed away 9 years ago during earthquake in a trip of hiking expedition

Queen Head

I have encountered 4 queen bees today. As you can tell from the photo, the head is pretty big with obscuring facial details. However, my mood is as gloomy and dark as the sky...

Snake

Green saphire eyes, fierce tack sharp vision.

It is an miniature symbol of Dragon, yet considered to be evil or dark.

Staring straight into my soul ...

Naked Buddha

Every living entity is a buddha, obscured by the presumed senses. Purity of thought is cleansed of discarding of inherent emptiness, enhancing the origin of soul to its strictest prestine state.

Force of nature by Pentax Fa 77mm ltd f1.8

Time never waits. The turbulence of time.

Look up

Sometimes we look up, we find things unexpected ...

Colour Feast - II by Pentax Fa 43mm ltd f1.9

A feast of colour. The world of mundane colours

Light Crystals

Colour are light reflected off the objects in which certain wavelengths are being transmitted through human retina to optic nerves then to our brains. However, colourfulness do not denote what our world is composed of...

Introperspective! by Pentax Fa 77mm ltd f1.8

Zen Buddhism states:

Do not look external to oneself, Look within!! Then one would ask,

Who is it that is looking?

Chess War by Pentax A 50mm f1.2

SunZhi says

"Attack the will of the enemy instead of their own physical bodies - the rule of winning"

Marysville by Pentax Fa 31mm ltd f1.8

A freezing winter in Melbourne. Marysville - This is the place I stumbled in the creek, wet my whole body and ended up being sick for the last few days. Not so pleasant at all.