A handy combination: GX7 + 12-32. Just a couple of pix.

Hello folks (he said happily, back in his "native" warmth in the tropics, his muscles unwinding and actually moving, his joints jointing, etc.).

I am becoming more and more enamored of the GX7 fitted with the 12-32. Such a handy, compact, inconspicuous combination, and so capable!

A couple of pix that might or might not show that.

Sunset in Brisbane. This was the best I could do, sorry, looking roughly west from the rooftop recreation area at the YHA Hostel. Looking generally easterly at the city was useless. Apart from the fact that the most useful observation point (the pool deck) was closed for maintenance, there just wasn't much happening in that direction.

I adjusted to get a bit more blue in the sky. I might have overdone it but I like the effect.

I made a mental note to grab a dawn shot before I left for the airport. Nope. Dawn was foggy.

The value of the GX7 and 12-32 in this case was that I could have it to hand and be reasonably unobtrusive, grab my shot, then move into the kitchen to prepare dinner.

The next morning, joy oh joy, I flew back to Papua New Guinea. Incredible as it might seem to many of you, I am now warm 24 hours a day. It feels wonderful. Quite seriously, muscles and joints have unfrozen and I feel like a new man (wait, let me rephrase that: I feel as though I am a new man).

Today, late-ish in the afternoon, I caught the bus out to Vision City, a shopping mall (okay, so it is pretty small, but it is all we have, all right?) with a view to doing a bit of shopping. I thought I would take the GX7 with 12-32 in a little bag and take an exterior pic for a website I am doing.

By the time I got there, light overcast was obscuring the sun but I thought I would get a place holding shot anyway in case I couldn't get there in better light in the next couple of days. So with the GX7 in the little bag, I clambered up a retaining wall (see what I mean about the muscles and joints?) to give myself a bit of elevation over the parked cars and took the picture.

Given the weak light, I set the mode to Vivid and even then pushed up the contrast and saturation a bit in PP in PhotoLine. I also straightened the verticals using PTLens PS-compatible plug-in.

Using the GX7 and 12-32 in this situation was good because Port Moresby is the kind of place where quite a few people are around who would be only too happy to separate you from an expensive camera. The GX7 with the little lens is pretty inconspicuous and not expensive looking.

Mind you, when I say "inconspicuous" that is discounting the fact that I am an aged white man in a predominantly black people-scape, and there I was making an idiot of myself leaping up and down retaining walls. Hmmm.