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One from a lunchtime photowalk with Francis Gorrez through Hyde Park in Sydney’s CBD

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Birdland

NIKON D600 + 35.0 mm f/1.4 @ 35 mm, 1/1250 sec at f/1.4, ISO 100

A stolen moment captured on Sydney Harbour – taken with an unusual lens for street photography – the Tamron 90mm macro shot wide open – but it was the lens I had on the camera at the time – sometimes when you’re focused on the micro world you have to keep one eye open for something in the macro world.

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Anticipation

NIKON D600 + 90.0 mm f/2.8 @ 90 mm, 1/100 sec at f/4, ISO 125

A lunchtime photowalk in Sydney with a couple of fellow G+’ers. For this excursion we headed down to Darling Harbour and Chinatown.

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Conversations

NIKON D600 + 35.0 mm f/1.4 @ 35 mm, 1/250 sec at f/2, ISO 100

Shadows

NIKON D600 + 35.0 mm f/1.4 @ 35 mm, 1/640 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100

I joined some fellow Google Plusers for a Saturday afternoon street photography photowalk in the bustling hive of Newtown.

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Newtown

NIKON D600 + 35.0 mm f/1.4 @ 35 mm, 1/25 sec at f/14, ISO 100

The Cake Man

NIKON D600 + 35.0 mm f/1.4 @ 35 mm, 1/250 sec at f/2, ISO 100

Man in a Cage

NIKON D600 + 35.0 mm f/1.4 @ 35 mm, 1/30 sec at f/2.2, ISO 100

Best Friend

NIKON D600 + 35.0 mm f/1.4 @ 35 mm, 1/40 sec at f/8, ISO 450

Some Sydney CBD architecture with the very very wide Sigma 15mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.

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Just before I got “warned” that I wasn’t allowed to photograph this building without prior permission. Strangely I had no problems whilst photographing inside the building, I only got “accosted” when I was outside on the public footpath on George St trying to photograph the outside of the building up into the sky. Sure I know my rights in this respect but I left it at a polite apology and walked off given I had the shots I actually wanted already.

Square!

NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/30 sec at f/5, ISO 220

and of course it’s almost mandatory to try the fisheye out in Angel Place and I was really happy with how this image turned out in monochrome

Cages in the Sky

NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/30 sec at f/5, ISO 250

Lastly I headed up to The Strand Arcade where I’d been meaning to take some wide or fisheye images for a while. Fortunately they’d also installed this interesting lone tree wrapped in knitted wool of various colours (as part of a campaign for wool). Headed up to the first floor, waited and waited and waited for people to be out of my frame (it was 2PM after all) and handheld the brackets for an HDR on the railing (so I could shoot down to 1/15th of a second and get a nice clean set of images).

The Stranded Tree

NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/15 sec at f/4, ISO 200