Welcome to The 21st edition of the series - Scenes from a bike
This Edition facts:
Location: It's lunar new year, so where else would I be but Chinatown in Melbourne, Australia - which has existed in 'Little Bourke street' since the 1850's, of course being lunar new year it was chaos this morning, there was of course a giant dragon, and multiple troupes of Lion Dancers as they blessed each business with a dance, the offering (which the lion 'eats) and fire crackers, so many fire crackers.
Now little bourke street is a 'little' street so about the width of two cars wide, so imagine all of that an thousands of people crammed in there and you'll imagine the chaos.
Date & Weather: Sunday the 22nd of January - weather is perfect, if not a little glary
Equipment: My Fujifilm X-T5, mated with my 23mm prime lens, which is the absolute worst lens for this job, I needed something wider, I should have taken a 10-24mm (of well)
The Concept & Finances: The concept is simple, I've bought an electric bike, on this bike I explore my hometown, Melbourne Australia and take photos, Priority 1 - Finding new places in Melbourne, Priority 2 - taking better photos, Bonus - Earn back the cost of the bike by creating content and getting paid for it on HIVE. The bike cost $1,100 USD. So far I've earned $118.25 from the previous 19 paid out posts (one pending) meaning I've paid for just under 11% of the bike and I have $982 to go. This is going to take some time, but this is all bonus money, the joy is in the taking of photos.
Other stuff: not exif today - just accept that it's all a 23mm prime, about 200 ISO, 125 or 250th of a second shutter and you'll be about right.
Let's see what I found
The Dragon
The Chaos
Look at this calmness - lovely artwork
The Dragon up close
A goat
A Lion to go with the dragon
The Old Man character
And now I present the second Lion Dance, I watched this troupe from about 10 minutes, and I have to say it was astounding, the effort and skills, of course they rotated people in and out but to do all of this this amongst the chaos around them was just astounding.
