The COVID its really making it hard for all the people like me, who are born with the disadvantaged to have a passion for photography: gears, prints, travelling expenses...the cost of maintaining this passion are a lot, let alone this new need to deal with curfew hours, with the various lockdowns, with the impossibility to travel cross regions, or just leaving your town to focus on a pre-established project. It’s very frustrating, let’s be honest. If you are moving inside your city to do some Street photography, then you will find out that there are not a lot of people around, the majority of which are wearing masks (this can be transformed in an opportunity, actually), and if you want to go far away just for a change or for some nice landscape photography, then you have to pay attention to the curfew or the fact that you cannot move out of your town and no, its not as easy to enjoy the pleasure of landscape photography in the city. It doesn’t mean its not possible, it is in fact, but its not the same as being free of being immersed in the nature or walking for hours in the mountain until you can find your own unique spot where to take the picture at dusk, or dawn. Perseverance and adaptation are the only levers you can count own, and you must keep hold on your passion to not add frustration over an already frustrating situation. Go out, even for a simple walk, even if there a very little change that you will fish out some nice picture (I don’t know why but I always associated the pure act of taking the photo to the one of catching a fish), you never know. Personally, there’s no one day where I don’t have the camera with me in my bag. Sometimes my girlfriend is mocking me because I have this habits of bringing the camera even for a commission that it’s only 100 meters away from our house. Stay strong, and invest in your passions people, as they have the tendency to make you, your life and the relationship with others, way better.
