Today is Australia Day, and in Melbourne, we have an annual vintage heritage car rally and the locals take the opportunity of going for a stroll amongst the cars and snacking on the many options from the temporary food stalls while listening to free music and watching the aerial antics of the Roulettes.

I took the opportunity to have a leisurely stroll and play with my beloved Olympus mZD 75mm f/1.8 lens on the Olympus E-M5 Micro Four Thirds camera – an absolutely awesome combination when you want bitingly sharp images with beautiful smooth bokeh – a photographer’s dream!

So here I present a few from today.

and some of the Paparazzi Dogs – a new, larger than life size series of statues in Melbourne’s Federation Square:

seems they are using a Canon dSLR:

If you are taking shots like these, make sure you turn off the E-M5’s face detection AF as this will over-ride your AF selection as in this shot where it automatically sets AF to the nearest person’s closest eye – great for portraiture but stuffs up your vintage car shots!