Some photos taken with the kit zoom

Today Zuleikha was invited to her friend Alina’s birthday party. So at around 3 o’clock (pm, that’s 15 o’clock here), we dropped her at some commercial indoor playground. Then we went for a short walk around “Oberwaldberg” (which is the official name of the hill, we people from Mörfelden and Mörfelden-Walldorf call it what it is – the garbage hill).

Mitchie had the 45mm/1.8 on her E-PL5, and I had the 14-42mm kit zoom of my E-PL5 mounted onto my E-M10. With that, I took some photos during our walk:

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I had to drive Mitchie home, so we missed what I would describe as one of the best sundowns of this year (so far). But that’s life – the lamb she prepared at home was fantastic as well.

These photos aren’t sharpened during post processing, so that kit zoom really is that good.

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Some photos in black & white

I had my E-M10 camera set to black & white lately. So here are some photos mostly like they came out of camera already (except the first one which I cropped into a 7:6 format which the camera cannot do by itself):

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Self portrait, grim, b&w, 7:6, March 2015

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Tuna the cat, March 2015

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Crossy road

For the last one I set the camera to crop into a 3:2 format internally, so it looks a bit more like that old Leica format (which is used in every other APS-C and also “full frame” (film-sized) camera today).

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Zuleikha in concert

Today was the annual spring concert of the local music school. And for the first time, Zuleikha gave a piano solo of two classical pieces. As usual, the light within our town hall wasn’t that good, but still we had to take some photos of course. Here is one I took:

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Zuleikha in concert, March 2015

Update from March 2nd, 2015:

Mitchie took a hand-held video of Zuleikha’s short performance, and uploaded it to Youtube. And Zuleikha wrote about it on her blog, where you can see the video as well.

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