Lockdown photography and a vlog

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Happy new year everybody! May your 2021 be much more fulfilling and less turbulent than your 2020. With the new year came a new camera for me (a few weeks before to be precise). More specifically this is a Nikon Z7ii for those of a technological bent; hot off the mirrorless press. And I'm loving it!  Naturally I've been out and about over the Christmas holidays doing my best to capture some nice photos. This has been easier said than done during the pandemic, and especially now we've been fully locked down again :( Photography is something I've been doing for many years now, but this time I've tried my hand at producing a little video cataloguing my exploits over the last few weeks. This is the first time I've filmed and put together something like this, and truth be told I'm a little nervous to put it out in the World. I don't think I have the best on-camera persona, but perhaps this will get better over time if I do it more. SO... I'd really apprec
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Be More Dog

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Man's best friend... or genetically modified killer with Stockholm syndrome? Either way my Mum's new cocker spaniel is delightful and loves bounding around. But as my Mum says, "he ain't half a handful at times!"

It can't be a bad life living on chardonnay carrots and branded jelly beans. I can't help wonder if the canine race are actually the most intelligent beings in the universe (much like mice in Hitchhikers Guide). There's a remote possibility that they have been around for billions of years, touring the galaxies in search of the perfect slaves to feed them, walk them and spoil them rotten. 
Right guys, everyone just keep your mouths shut and we can engineer the best quality of life imaginable!
The ruse even goes as far as self sacrifice to human abuse for the canine greater good!! Or maybe I'm crazy.

I wonder what he named me.
Victor