Hawkdun Sunset

Foot of the St Bathans Range.

Foot of the St Bathans Range.

It’s the middle of summer and the golden tussock has overtaken its shorter agricultural cousin. Back …


Maniototo Landscapes

Old Dunstan Road.

Old Dunstan Road.

Hawkduns.


St Bathans - 1877

St Bathans. 1877

St Bathans. 1877

St Bathans is a small town in the Maniototo with a history of gold mining. On a recent trip there I was reading a …


Hasselblad V Lenses on Sony Mirrorless Cameras

On a recent trip to the Maniototo I was shooting the Hasselblad 501cm film camera. One evening up the Manuherikia River the skies clouded over. There wasn’t enough light to shoot without a tripod so I put away the film camera and experimented with shooting the Hasselblad lenses adapted to my …


On Software Engineering; Conference Notes

Notes and thoughts from attending the YOW Melbourne conference.

Andrea Magnorsky gave a talk[1] on Bytesize Architecture Sessions[1]:

Bytesize Architecture Sessions are a workshop format that help teams understand the systems they work on. Each session focuses on a small slice of a system. After …