The productivity of landscape photographers has surely decreased during this global lockdown. With going outdoors only allowed for essential reasons, sorties into unknown territories have had to take a backseat. I admit that I was not looking forward to the prolonged time we are forced to spend indoors at the behest of COVID-19. It’s something to do with life becoming very predictable, having to accept the limitations of your neighbourhood and being motivated to make images close to home.
The last few weeks have been useful to clean and service cameras and lenses and to organise storage and delete the many versions of each partly processed image from previous forays (which I’m sure all photographers accumulate). However, daily exercise is so important to our health & wellbeing and my rambles have become absolute highlights of each day, always with a camera to hand.
We have seen some extraordinary weather conditions recently and I’ve been happy to take tentative steps through fog, mist and frost and have found some photo opportunities despite the grey. Who would know how delightful if would be to photograph these swans on my recent walk around my local reservoir on a murky morning?
I’ll keep searching for inspiration, and dreaming of some stunning landscapes waiting for me out there somewhere, when COVID allows.