Travelling Lens

A Travel, Photography and Points Blog

Rotorua, New Zealand, Day 1

Rotorua Museum of Art & History

Over the last 2 months, with social distancing, I’ve had a bit more time at home. This meant I finally finished editing my photos from my 2 week New Zealand road trip taken several years ago. I feel grateful that I have had the opportunity to travel quite a bit over the last 4 years and as a result have constantly fallen behind on my photo editing. As I edited and went through my photos, it reminded me all the things New Zealand has to offer and I can’t wait to go back this year if the boarders between Australia & New Zealand opens up.

My previous blog posts on New Zealand can be found here:

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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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Into the Archives, Food & Drink Photography

Coffee at Sidedoor BBQ, Mt Lawley

I spent a bit of time over the Easter long weekend going through some of the my end of 2019, early 2020 photos of my cafe and restaurant adventures. For some reason I enjoy taking these food and drink snaps but seldom find a reason to share them. I thought why not put together a series of food and drink images into a blog post. These are all local joints in Perth. Hopefully when we are all released from our social isolation, we can all head out and support some of our local businesses, especially if they’re closed at this time.

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