Hi everyone, I’m back from vacation in Tyrolia, Austria, and have brought with me huge amounts of pictures! In fact, I’ve taken so many pix I still have some left to process.

We’ve had a wonderful time there, and even though the weather was mixed and unstable, we enjoyed a few sunny days and did a lot of hiking. Emil had the greatest fun having all his grandparents around, and learned a lot of new things. We’re back refreshed and with loads of new energy!

As I announced earlier, I’m going to write a guest article for Steve Huff’s site, about the Zeiss Biogon 2/35 ZM on the Leica M8 and Olympus E-P1. This article will feature quite a few pictures from our trip to Tyrolia, and I will also put up a dedicated gallery as soon as I’ve got all pictures processed.

For now, I’d like to present you with some snaps from yesterday evening, when we had wonderful golden light and a great cloudy sky, which allowed for some beautiful captures! The pictures were taken with the E-P1 and either the Lumix 20/1.7 or the kit zoom, using (where applicable) the new-to-me Olympus VF-1 optical viewfinder, which is a great addition to the E-P1+20/1.7 combo.

Golden hour above the fields | Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/5, 1/640 sec, ISO 200

Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/1.7, 1/4000 sec, ISO 200

Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/1.7, 1/1250 sec, ISO 200

Our shadows on the grass | Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/3.2, 1/250 sec, ISO 200

"Another one bites the dust" | Olympus E-P1 + kit zoom @ 42mm, f/5.6, 1/80 sec, ISO 320

"I'm walking, yes indeed ..." | Olympus E-P1 + kit zoom @ 42mm, f/5.6, 1/100 sec, ISO 250

Olympus E-P1 + kit zoom @ 42mm, f/7.1, 1/160 sec, ISO 200

Little flies dancing in the evening light | Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/1.7, 1/800 sec, ISO 200

Sunset over our village | Olympus E-P1 + kit zoom @ 40mm, f/5.5, 1/500 sec, ISO 200

All pictures were processed using Adobe Lightroom 3.

The VF-1, by the way, also works great with the kit zoom. At 14mm, simply use the whole finder area for framing, and at 18mm, the framelines are pretty accurate. With the 20mm pancake, a bit less gets recorded than you see in the framelines, but only marginally so. Contrary to the cheapish Helios Multifinder, this one is actually usable …