I’m back! from outer space.  After completing my works contract in Hastings I did some travelling abroad from September until end of November.  So I missed all those autumn colours.  I returned to Hastings end of November and was looking forward to getting back into some landscape photography around the UK through the winter months.

Taking Camera Abroad

I not take my DLSR with me travelling, I don’t primarily take landscape photographs when travelling or even go hiking.  Where I go, it’s usually too hot and want to keep my luggage to a minimum.  But in the more remote places it would be good to hire a motorbike, but no experience or confidence especially when having to use the other side of the road.  But while back in the UK I want to take some motorbike training courses.

Google Photos

While abroad I did use the camera a lot within my mobile phone and was impressed with the results.  Cameras in mobile phones have come along way in the last few years.   Here is one I shot one evening in Hastings on the seafront of a sunset behind the pier.

With a good camera in your mobile phone, you have a camera on you all the time.  What compliments mobile phone photography at least for android users is google photos.   You can organise all your photos into albums and upload them to the cloud allowing access from any device anywhere.

Backing up your photos

Storage is unlimited for jpeg images taken with your mobile.  You can also upload your raw images from your other cameras by adding device folders.  Storage for raw images though is limited, to add more space you have to buy a monthly storage plan.  But google photos is great and makes it easy to share your photos on social media sites like facebook etc.

Backup Smart Phone

When travelling abroad, I keep my main mobile phone safely locked up back in the hotel and use a second cheaper smart mobile phone for any street photography I might take.  I was very impressed with the Moto G6 phone.
Moto G6
The great thing is now with these new smart phones when you zoom in they switch to a second embedded telephoto lens and not using digital zoom. I was really impressed with the Moto G6.

Hastings old Town

I was in Hastings a few days before moving on.   I had long since given up my rented flat in nearby Bexhill.  All my stuff, including my car and DLSR were in storage in nearby Rye with express removals which I can highly recommend.

Still one morning I took a walk up to the country park in Hastings and it was good to inhale the fresh winter air of south-east England again.  That castle on the west hill was the first one the Normans built nearly one thousand years ago now.

Road Trip

For my morning walk in Hastings country park, I was using my Canon compact camera which I do take with me abroad but do not always carry like you do a mobile phone.

It was a little sad to leave Hastings and east Sussex especially passing the hills of the south downs as I drove down the A27.  Before eventually returning to work, I wanted to do a little road trip around the UK and get back into some landscape photography and walking.