{"id":6055,"date":"2013-07-30T22:57:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T12:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6055"},"modified":"2013-07-30T22:57:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T12:57:50","slug":"melbournes-annual-open-house-weekend-victorias-state-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6055","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne’s annual Open House weekend – Victoria’s State Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went into the city to photograph Melbourne’s very popular annual weekend – Open House Melbourne<\/a> – where major buildings in Melbourne are open to the public and their cameras – a great time for photographers to find new material – if they can put up with the queues.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this year I ran out of time to view the buildings apart from the wonderful State Library, so here are a few of the library which is well worth a visit.<\/p>\n

These are all taken with the Micro Four Thirds<\/a> kit using the wonderful Olympus E-M5 camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The library’s dome taken with the lovely inexpensive Samyang 7.5mm fisheye lens<\/a> (click on image to view larger size):<\/p>\n

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The following were taken using the highly praised Panasonic 20mm f\/1.7 pancake lens<\/a> hand held:<\/p>\n

2nd edition of Machiavelli’s The Prince:
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I went into the city to photograph Melbourne’s very popular annual weekend – Open House Melbourne – where major buildings in Melbourne are open to the public and their cameras – a great time for photographers to find new material – if they can put up with the queues. Unfortunately, this year I ran out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[283,285,18,494,241,272,284],"class_list":["post-6055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-melbourne","category-photography","tag-buildings","tag-fisheye","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-melbourne","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-panasonic-20mm","tag-samyang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}