Whenever there’s a lot of excitement due to “internationally recognized” celebrations such as the Chinese New Year, it’s always a great idea to bring your camera with you. Even if it’s just your pocket camera, like the one I had last time. It was a great day, sunny and not too hot. So I decided to take a walk with my friend, for the reason to avoid bearing the weight on my neck, I didn’t bring my SLR, I brought my little Nikon S200 instead.

Festivities!

Good thing I brought the camera, because such view like the one you see on the left is not something that you would normally see. Everyone went out and enjoyed the day. I mean, look at it, the picture on the right.

The watchers, the dragon...

The sides of the parking lot is just full of people, watching the Chinese Dragon.

In a situation like that one, an SLR would have been great. First its faster at focusing, secondly there’s the wide angle lens which would have covered more and hence captured the moment better.  Well, that’s a lesson, don’t be lazy to lug around your equipment, especially on such a good day.

Another thing to remember is always pay attention of the surrounding. Who knows, maybe we’ll capture something very interesting.

The festival on the day amazingly reaches almost every part of Chinatown, going though the shops and throughout the street. Its almost as if we are in Asia on the day.

The Lion and the Shops and the firecracker, you can almost hear how loud it was...

Street Stalls, here's something you don't see everyday in Melbourne

It was such a good day, especially if you think that  another 43degree day is coming tomorrow.