Sunday saw me breaking free of the family ties and having a stroll around Auckland city centre for the afternoon. It’s a nice city with the usual chain stores mixed in with some more interesting shops and buildings. I’m quite taken with what I’m calling this “colonial” architecture – monumental-ish buildings about 100 years old with quite flat and subtle reliefs on them. There’s also a lot of art in Auckland, much of it of a Maori ilk.
I got the feeling Auckland centre was in the middle of a big cleanup as the money pours into this growing city but there’s still space for the interesting bit of humanity amongst the planning.
I then did a bad thing and bought a new lens, a Sigma 70-300mm zoom which is effectively 105-450mm on my Nikon. I figured if I was ever going to use that sort of zoom it was going to be in New Zealand and while it doesn’t have vibration reduction I did bring my tripod. It’s taking a bit of getting used to but I gave it a quick spin by the docks.
Havingagreattimewishyouwerehere.