Travelling Lens

A Travel, Photography and Points Blog

2020 Year in Review and looking towards 2021

I have shared an annual review on this blog each year for the last 4 years (since starting this blog back in 2016). Like many people around the world, 2020 has been one rollercoaster of a year. I didn’t quite get my act together to write my review until what is now the end of January 2021. The purpose of this is to reflect on the (crazy) year that was 2020 and discuss what I’m looking forward to in 2021. A word of warning, this ended up being a fairly lengthy post and not all related to photography.

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My decade-long journey in photography

The iconic Perth city skyline from South Perth Foreshore taken late in the afternoon.

My name is Janice and I’m a blogger and photographer from the sunny coastal city of Perth, Western Australia. For as long as I can remember, I always had a passion for the arts and creative pursuits. When I was growing up, I loved writing, drawing and arts and craft classes. While I currently work in the healthcare industry, photography and writing has become my creative passion and creative outlet.

Originally post on Fuji X Passion website and Fuji X Passion April 2020 Magazine

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Social distancing documentary project, part III

Grocery Shop - Japanese sauces

I’ve had a few weeks break from blogging but have carried on with taking photos around the house and when I’ve been out on walks and other daily life activities. These images were mostly taken back in April 2020 during the high of social distancing measures. During the month, in my free time on the weekend, there was a lot of home cooking, weekend walks grocery shopping.

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Social isolation documentary project, Part II

Perth city from a far
Perth city from a far

As many of us spend so much of our time at home these days due to COVID-19, cooking and baking has taken off! I’ve been enjoying researching recipes and watching YouTube videos of chefs showing people how to many simple meals at home. I’m spending much of my non-work time either grocery shopping or at learning to cook a new dish or two on the weekend and also some photo editing my backlog of photos. To try to squeeze in some actual physical activity since gyms have been closed, I’ve tried to walk to do my grocery shopping or do some in-home yoga and exercises. I’m not a particularly good cook but I have enjoyed trying a range of more time consuming dishes like making dumplings and lasagne. On my walks, I have also tried to support local cafes by buying takeaway coffee and food.

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Social isolation documentary project, Part I

Perth's empty train, once bustling with people
Empty train in Perth

Australia went further and further into lock-down mode throughout the month of March 2020. I was inspired by other photographers I followed who shared their ideas what they were going to do during this lockdown period to keep up with their photography, business and creativity. The COVID-19 pandemic is definitely one for the history books. Like many photographers out there, I thought doing a mini documentary project to capture daily life during this historic period of time would be interesting and insightful. Something I could look back upon and tell the story of what it felt like living during a pandemic through my own eyes.

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