This, ladies and gentlemen, is why i won't be switching to mirrorless just yet

Granted my experience with the little Olympus OMD EM5 is not a fair comparison to the 5+ years on Canon gear and the 20ish before that on fully-manual Pentax film equipment, but I have now had a solid month using it as my exclusive  camera system. I've tasked it with a variety of jobs, situations like landscapes, street, architecture, and portraiture. I've learned the respective required setups for each and I have been, in general, very impressed... but one of the biggest strengths of all my DLSRs, being quick and accurate auto-focus, has been sadly lacking on tonight's adventure. It's really quite a let down for me too, because to carry 10kgs+ for 12hours+ shooting weddings, is not fun.

Tonight:

St Kilda, on nights like this, unfortunately always seems to play host to a small number of random idiots who decide the best way to top off a perfect day at the beach is with a fight.
A hot day spent relaxing down at the beach with your friends, is often followed, once the sun has retired for the evening, by relocating your group to the eating and drinking establishments of Acland and Fitzroy Streets.  You would still feel the sun's warm kiss as you walk in the direction of nourishment, when you catch a familiar yellow glow in the distance. Perhaps subconsciously you actually think this to be your earlier, enormous, hot yellow companion, having only just departed, returning to you to play on.
But alas no, it is Maccas who beckons you, like a siren calling, resistance is futile. Fighting ensues.

Anyway, here's today's instalment, in short:-
I saw: agro and fighting, cops then in attendance, followed by a mad dash to "freedom" by a "big man".
You see: a sequence of images, taken by a working (and currently also teaching) photojournalist, that are well-composed to tell a full story, that also are all perfectly out-of-focus....  enjoy!

 FYI, to all the punks who think fighting makes you a man... a man would not have run when police arrived. He would feel safe, confident that he had justifiable reasons for his earlier actions. This is what comes when you think before you act. If you take on-board this little piece of advice when dealing with all conflict-based situations, I hope that one day you may even see the futility of fighting fullstop. Then will then be a real man, grasshopper.