NZFF

The one thing that I’ve realised I miss about NZ, believe it or not, is getting up early in the morning to go to work- not that I enjoyed my occupation particularly (), but I quite miss the serenity of the dawn sunrise. There peace and quiet tended to create quite a tranquil atmosphere, accompanied by the first rays of sun for the day… it was something I took for granted until I moved over here, and now sleep in each day until lunchtime!

Brighton is a real metropolitan place, even though it’s viewed as a ‘seaside getaway’ for most Londoners, it’s still a hustling and bustling big noisy city- much more so than Auckland.

In the hope of capturing a different side to the place, I made a special effort to wake myself up before sunrise twice this week, with the help of some ‘Koru Energy Strips’ which are the popular new craze over here in the UK (like a can of Red Bull in a dissolvable tongue tab, with a Maori tattoo pattern on it for some reason).

Anyway, when I went out for these walks, I took my camera with me and grabbed a few snaps- very amateurish, and nothing like Benwynn’s amazing shots from Melbourne, but it may interest at least a few of you out there all the same:


From Friday:
The Royal Pavilion


St Peters Cathedral


Random street scenes


‘The King n’ Queen’- our local pub for watching the footy


An assortment of other churches and buildings with abstract architecture









From Wednesday:
The Pav. again






‘Graffiti Avenue’ in the Lanes


An unusually deserted seafront










…and back to ‘Dorset Gardens’, my home for the last two and a half months


Now I know that I really need to invest in a better camera next time I go traveling!

Trolly wrote:

QUOTE (Trolly @ Sep 26 2008, 11:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

In the hope of capturing a different side to the place, I made a special effort to wake myself up before sunrise twice this week, with the help of some 'Koru Energy Strips'

Very nice, love the ones of the pier, the light is just right at that time of the day by the looks. Its a great spot Brighton aye. When I worked for British Rail I used to head down there a-day-a-week to work on the electrical control room there, was quite a pleasant ride down in the old door-slammers from Croydon. If you use the trains down there you will be on tracks powered by equipment I helped design and commission when we worked on the new control room in the 90's, be afraid !!!

PS - how about importing a few boxes of those Koru strips when you come home