Street People, with Mouse
This was an unexpected sight. When I asked if I could take their picture, the one on the right asked for some change. And refused to tell me what was going on until I had the picture. Notice the mouse? Life on the streets seems to come with mice.
Enamelled Dragon
This dragon is on a corner in the Chinatown area of Victoria. The surface looks like enamel, the ceramic kind. But perhaps it is just paint.
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Vented Wall
The alley that leads down to the back of John’s Place, which has been seen in the last two posts, has this wall on one side.
This is one wall of the restaurant. I was not blasted with hot greasy air when I passed these vents, which is probably reflects well on the menu.
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Pixelated Wall
This is on the other side of the small now creek-less valley out back of John’s Place opposite yesterday’s shot. The range of tones in these breeze blocks, or are they cinder blocks?, was what I found interesting.
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Around Back John’s Place
There is a narrow alley off Pandora Street that drops down into what at one time was a small valley with a creek, now fully paved. John’s Place, a restaurant, backs onto this area. I think there are apartments above the restaurant, but don’t know that for sure. The stairs in this photo are coming down from the street level out front, giving an idea of the minimum depth of the draw that held the creek.
I was framing a second shot, after having taken the bottom one when the woman came out the door and into my photos. I did not have the guts to keep on photographing while she came down the stairs to fetch something, but we did have a brief chat – “what is so interesting that you would want to photograph it?” In fact, the truthful answer would have been her, going down and up the stairs, or at least would have added some interest. Still, I like how she is hidden and her actions suggested rather than obvious in the first shot.
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Deer Brush and Water Drop
These two shots are quick tests, hand-held in the garden, with high magnification macro as part of my learning my way around a work camera. One of the things I am interested in with the Olympus OMD EM1 is to see how it handles vintage lenses, and in particular macro lenses. As it happened, I have a Canon FD to Micro 4/3’s adapter got for my son’s Panasonic, but never used much. So on the weekend I put on my Canon FD 50mm F3.5 lens, reversed and mounted on extension tubes. With my full frame sensor camera, this combination runs at about 2X magnification on the sensor, and thus with this camera’s smaller sensor, it must result in about 4X magnification, or a bit less because I think the lens was not fully extended.
I took quite a few shots, but hand-holding was a bad idea, and the ISO was too slow to compensate. Even so, a few of them more or less worked out. These two are really to affirm to myself that the camera is totally capable for more extreme macro shots, especially when I bother to mount it on a tripod, or otherwise set it up in advance. It will also work fine with my FD bellows unit combined with this lens set, which could produce magnifications in the 8X to 10X range. I expect that to be a lot trickier, and in need of flash, but I want to work at cleaning the inside of the bellows unit first (and yet again) in order to avoid filling the camera with dust.
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