Seeing is Believing
Friday, December 19, 2008
Ferret Falls by Pentax Da* 16-50mm f2.8
This is located near Wonderland carpark of Halls Gap, Grampians Natonal Park of Victoria, Australia.
The place does not resemble a wonderland. Instead, there is a lot of construction going on: Yellow tapes and Road work sign.
As you might be aware of, Joel, Voe and I went for this trip to this supposedly camping paradise of my home state. What we get in return was pouring rain scented with seagull poo. Yes, I had tasted plenty of organic manure from the mother nature...
The falls exist in the cyberworld. I could never locate this waterfall in Granpians despite this 11th visit to the national park. Thanks to some strange luck, we happened to get out of the car to pee into the bush off the road leading to Mt Zero. We spotted this trail leading to the bush with the sounds of water splashing! So here it was a magnificent waterfalls that was enpowered by the storm that nearly blew us away into the werribee sewage farm.
I had 3 sets of camera systems and I had taken several images of this waterfall with each system as well. Da* 16-50 has the best contrast and water flow out of them. This lens unfortunately has received a lot of negative feedback in various fora. I found the lens a joy to use if it is not a decentred lens. Pray to Buddha hard and try to enjoy this lens would be what I am suggesting to all Pentax users.
Besides, this lens is weathered sealed and making my hiking around the place rather easier. After rain, the contrast and colour usually pops in any sort of images. However, the glow and glare can be a concern and this is more of a problem on canon 5D. Olympus E520 has better saturation and colour than pentax k20d but its rendering of water is far inferior.
I will rest my rant and cease my bodily functions to my bed...
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11 comments:
Adventurous and curious heart will always surprise and good reward.
Very nice photo.
Will come back again.
Rainfield61
This photo has several things that I like at once.
The place looks pretty... Nice shot! =)
Thx for stopping by. Wow, nice collection of diverse images. Have a Merry and a Happy. Blue Skies.
Ken, thank you for such a great compliment!
rainfield, the reward is when people like you appreciate the image!
Ratty, thank you!
Cashmere
Really glad that you like it
A great images and looks like the trek was well worth it
:o)
have a good holiday season
T
Thank you Tony. Merry Christmas
Cool blog, nice pictures, and wonderful photography .....keep blogging !
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