Sorry for the Group Email

And that, as they say, is that. Three months, two hostels, two apartments, 43 work days and a brace of freelance work later, and we’re leaving Sydney. Sydney is perhaps the most spotlessly clean, beautifully-constructed and lovingly cared-for city I’ve ever visited, and living and working here has been a genuine pleasure. You shouldn’t take my word for it, either: come and see for yourselves.

Now that the photographic goodness is over, a few words of thanks:

To Chris, who put in a ludicrously good word for me with a host of editors. I would be poorer without you. Literally. As in I’d be living on baked beans.

To Jim and David, who kindly asked me to write words about websites and cameras respectively.

To Tom, who did likewise, but with Powerpoint.

To Alex and Dan, who commissioned me to write about internet browsers, search engines, laptops and cameras.

To Nick, who graciously recommended me for a job that was much, much better than any I got have found on my own. I presume he told a pack of lies to get me through the door, but I’m grateful nonetheless.

To another Nik, who asked me to write some words about a camera.

To our phenomenally easy-to-live-with housemates Sim and Rachel. Living with people is supposed to be a godawful mess of passive-aggressive behaviour and arguments over who ate the last of the cheese. Our experience has been, if you’ll allow me to slip back to mid-nineties vernacular, fabbo.

To Mendy, who coped with my grumpy reluctance to get back into the swing of work like the trooper she is.

Incidentally, these aren’t all the shots we’ve taken since being Australia: that’s because that number is 3,760 and frankly there isn’t space. If you’d like to see more, visit our Australia collection on Flickr.