Retinax, Robert,
Thank you both. There are a lot of stories out there, happy and sad, resulting from the pandemic, that have nothing to do with getting sick. I am fortunate to live in an area, and it is a very large one, that is pretty much unaffected by the disease, but significantly affected by the response to the disease, a response largely predicated on conditions which exist elsewhere.
The pandemic isn't so much "pan" as it must seem if one lives in a metropolitan area, or, pointedly, Manhattan, where most of the U.S. coverage emanates from. Coverage, unfortunately, has been heavily politicized.
I'd like to stay away from that, yet still be able to document in a small way, things seen in thousands of square miles of country that are neither Manhattan, Chicago, or L.A. Mostly because that's where I am, that's all I have got from where I am, and the national news here is either ignoring it, or presenting it either with irony or unmerited condescension, generally. I'd like to do neither.
I am keeping away from people and being careful, but I am not confined. I thought that perhaps some of these photos could be like a travelog to those who are confined. A balm of sorts.
(Maybe that's what I thought, maybe I just thought I had to throw some cameras in the car and burn up a lot of fossil fuel taking photos just to get out of here🙂
God Bless.
