{"id":6238,"date":"2013-11-11T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2014-05-07T00:12:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T14:12:20","slug":"a-sunday-afternoon-with-the-olympus-75mm-f1-8-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6238","title":{"rendered":"a Sunday afternoon with the Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of my blog will know how much I love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusmzd75mm\" target=\"_blank\">Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 lens<\/a> on my <a title=\"E-M5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusomdem5\" target=\"_blank\">Olympus OM-D E-M5<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:microfourthirds\" target=\"_blank\">Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was a rather chilly Spring day in Melbourne, Australia, and all the more so with my decision to head up to the nearby hills and explore some open private historic gardens at Mt Macedon which were created after the devastating bushfires of Ash Wednesday in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few to demonstrate the wonderful European influences from the 19th century:<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokescollection.com.au\/forest-glade-gardens\" target=\"_blank\">Forest Glade<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"marble statue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_ForestGlade\/GA101621-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"child photographer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_ForestGlade\/GA101636-3.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stork\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_ForestGlade\/GA101640-5.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"child flautist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_ForestGlade\/GA101667-9.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"children reading\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_ForestGlade\/GA101683-13.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"feeding the birds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_ForestGlade\/GA101687-14.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dancers I\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_ForestGlade\/GA101688-15.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dancers II\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_ForestGlade\/GA101692-16.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardensoftievetara.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tieve Tara<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"girl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_TieveTara\/GA101719-17.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kissing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_TieveTara\/GA101723-19.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wisteria\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_TieveTara\/GA101729-21.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chair\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_TieveTara\/GA101732-22.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duneira.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duneira<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bluebells\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_Duneira\/GA101746-23.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bluebells II\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/Macedon_Duneira\/GA101779-27.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a trip to Mount Macedon should include:<\/p>\n<p>an Australian rainforest bushwalk such as to the lovely stands of Eucalyptus viminalis at Sanatorium Lake, temperature had dropped to 6degC and it was getting quite dark:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"E. viminalis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/MtMacedon\/GA101786-28.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and check out this very loving tribute of this lady to her lover in the Macedon cemetery:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"grave\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Victoria\/walks\/MtMacedon\/GA101796-30.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of my blog will know how much I love the Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 lens on my Olympus OM-D E-M5 Micro Four Thirds camera. 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