As of right now, I am supposed to be along the Arizona/Utah border with some photographer friends exploring a distant backwater of Lake Powell. Instead, I am sitting at home in Southeast Missouri trying not to catch a virus. Like a lot of people I watched with growing concern as this new and highly contagious virus spread from China to Seattle and then across the country. But I never expected it to have such a profound impact. I am among the lucky (thus far) in that I am healthy and my job still exists. This is one of the rare moments that I am happy not to be a professional photographer.
So like a lot of landscape photographers, I suspect, I am taking a closer and more considered look at my own backyard. Not literally, though I do have a nice yard. But it has made me take out my old Southeast Missouri road maps and look for natural areas that I've always been curious about but have never explored....or at least it's been so long that I've forgotten. Is Hickory Canyon as spectacular as the Grand Canyon? Of course not. But there might be a couple of quiet images that, over time, turn out to be as nice as any North Rim sunset, except more original.
And yesterday I just ordered a macro lens for my new mirrorless digital. I don't do a lot of macro stuff, but the times I have worked at it, especially with flowers, I've been pleasantly surprised....like this old Pentax 67 film shot of some grocery store Cala lillies. Once the lens gets here I may finally work on all those extreme rose close-ups I've been planning to do for 20 years, but never got around to. Of course, if the pandemic breaks early and they open up the highways again, I'll be the first one out the door.
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