Essentially this is a post to try and prompt me to start blogging a bit again with a bit of an update…
I’ve been back in the United Kingdom for a few months now after deciding earlier this year that almost 10 years in New Zealand was
enough, and that it was time for a change in terms of life and work.
I had never really planned to stay as long as I did there, but COVID-19 partly got in the way (I had planned to return to the UK in 2020), and
the next time after that I almost returned - late 2021 - also got deferred so as to give other opportunities a go (Unity Software’s
take-over of Weta Digital’s R&D department), which didn’t really work out.
So it’s time for a new start back in my native country. Summer this year in the UK was suspiciously good, but autumn’s here now with
the more typical weather that brings, but so far I’m not obviously pining for anything back in New Zealand (other than the lack of Sunday trading laws!), which is probably a good sign.
Two weeks ago I returned from a trip back to the UK for a few weeks, stopping off in San Francisco for a few days on the way out, and I have almost finished processing the DSLR photos I took, so this is just a quick post containing a single photo each from some of the locations I visited whilst away.
I’ve just got back from a trip back to the UK for a few weeks, stopping off in Hong Kong on the way out and Singapore on the way back,
which was very enjoyable if also very tiring.
Despite the battery life issue I have with it, the new camera held up well, and I found the Live View functionality very useful for shooting on a tripod and focusing by touching on the screen.
I used this method to tick the box on some (somewhat cliché) location photos in both Hong Kong and Singapore (see below) that I did want to take, and I hope to return to both
places in the future to explore more (although the evidence of political rumblings in Hong Kong was fairly apparent).
