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Corona is making people lonely. A community is living when people are talking and acting together.
An old woman told me that she is missing the normal loud level of our small town. Now she hears each single aeroplane in the sky and she has fear because it reminds her of the second world war when war aeroplanes were coming...
Fear is eating soul
Reflections through a closed restaurant.
Having worked as a chef for 28 years, my heart goes out to my band of sisters & brothers through this incredibly tough time.
Resilience, creativity, hard work & ability to work together, we will get through the toughest service we have ever had.
Our grandson has been staying with us...and he is currently obsessed with fishing in the neighborhood pond. We stayed out til after sunset last evening...
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beginning on March 16, 2020 I have tagged 1047 photos with "Social Distancing" (as a reminder to myself, and perhaps others as well). That tag is for now not needed :-)
Amid the crowds of Pine Siskins, doves, grackles, orioles, and grosbeaks at Laureen's feeders (following a late spring snowstorm - see previous two photos for description), at least one Red-breasted Nuthatch made an appearance. I watched it make several trips, snatching a seed and quickly flying away. When it worked its way down a tree trunk - typical nuthatch behaviour - I thought it was searching for insects and larvae hidden in cracks in the bark. Evidently not.
Red-breasted Nuthatches cache seeds for later retrieval. I caught this one doing exactly that; it must have been hiding the seed in its crop. At the time, I thought it had found an insect. Only during processing, viewing the image full size, did I realize what it was up to. Caching is more common in late summer and fall - yes, nuthatches overwinter in Saskatchewan - but perhaps the unexpected snow fooled them for a day or two. The snow was gone by the following afternoon. Now, almost two weeks later, the prairie is incredibly green.
I made this shot in my artist friend Laureen Marchand's backyard, near her feeders, where hundreds of birds gathered in the aftermath of the freak May snowstorm. She is @laureenartist on Instagram, and her site is well worth visiting.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
looking good !! ... masks ..etc ...
in my People 2 Series ...
Taken Apr 26, 2020
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The Walt Disney Concert Halls shines in the late afternoon sunlight on a empty street, during the Covid19 epidemic !
The playground is quiet now
There is no music
No Laughter
No children's voices
Where once there was play
Now, there is only silence
A cold reminder that the world had changed
Almost overnight, every man, woman, child
Had crossed some cosmic Rubicon
There would be
No reset
No return to 'normal'
No going back
This, the new 'normal'
The playground is silent now
No children swinging
No children running
No children sliding
No children
Only silence to plague the loneliness
Work Day / Social Distancing Day 93, 06/16/2020, Manhattan, NY
Apple iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 7 Plus back dual camera 6.6mm f/2.8
ƒ/2.8 6.6 mm 1/850 20
working ...
the new normal ...
Connected 24/7 ...
in my People Series 2 ...
Taken Mar 10, 2020
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This was a bugger of an image to capture. I think I took about 60 fames before I got the one I was happy with 😂.
Bought for me by grandmother in September 96. It doesn’t match the other two rings I wear, given its silver and the others are gold. It’s also broken and needs to be fixed. But I don’t care, it has never come off my finger until I decided to snap these photos last weekend.
Music Masters Misery
Immersing oneself in music, migrating one to another world devoid of Coronavirus.
A child's rainbow, placed on the front window sill of their home, depicting hope and support for all those fighting the Coronavirus.
Two weeks ago my company directed us all to work from home for the "next 2-3 weeks." It will undoubtedly be more like 1-3 months. This is my "office" set up in a corner of our dining room. Through the laptop I'm able to talk with customer all over the world. I'm a customer aupport analyst for Park Place Technologies.
On a train to London 26th August 2020. I really needed a day out after the long seclusion of Covid 19 Lockdown. The train was mostly empty and central London was very quiet without the hordes of foreign tourists or British tourists. Face Masks have to be worn on public transport in the UK at the moment and it makes sense to be safe and keep others safe.
the new normal ...
covid mask ... ?
better safe than sorry ...
Plague doctors wore a mask with a bird-like beak to protect them from being infected by deadly diseases such as the Black Death, which they believed was airborne.... 17th Century ...
Same as Covid ...? ... should be good for Covid mask ? ...
:-)
You might be interested in a bit of history here:
Why the beak form ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor
Pic in my People Series # 3 ...
Taken June 19, 2020
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In response to having no sandwiches and the like this tesco branch did some quick reshuffling and offered customers a variety of liquid lunches.
Well played tesco.
The church yard sits next to the main road in Hotwells and this shutdown has allowed passers by to hear birdsong and smell the flowers. Sadly not a time to linger.
KD .... take care .....
in my People Series 2 ...
Taken Apr 17, 2020
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Hotwells England at approx 10 am. a normally busy main road into the city but only a single cyclist can be seen All other vehicles are parked up
"Candid photography is snapshot photography that focuses on spontaneity rather than technique, on perfecting the immersion of a camera within events rather than focusing on setting up a staged situation".
take care ...
protect yourself and others ...
Masks and gloves ...and distancing ...
in my People Series 2 ...
Taken on Apr 18, 2020
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“FROM the towns all Inns have been driven: from the villages most. . . . Change your hearts or you will lose your Inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your Inns drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.”
~Hilaire Belloc:
Just me observing an apocalyptic Silicon Valley while on the way home from work. It's like as if a volcano was erupting nearby. Never in my life living here have I ever witnessed such a weather scenario like this... Certainly, this year's wildfire season is a historic one... This was up at Groesbeck Hill Park in San Jose, CA. (Wednesday, September 9, 2020; 5:20 p.m.)
*Weather scenario: A historic outbreak of wildfires across NorCal left a massive layer of smoke draped over the SF Bay Area, turning skies Wednesday into an eerie dark orange haze & covering cars, yards & homes with layers of ash. Climate experts believe this is part of California’s ‘new normal.’ 2 million+ acres have burned so far in a series of wildfires with the Bear & Creek fires currently raging to the east of the Bay Area. Smoke from the blazes had covered Wednesday morning with a layer of darkness. While it may look like the world is coming to an end, the orange & dark skies maybe an ominous sign of what maybe in our future... The apocalyptic skies come after a record-breaking streak of Spare the Air alerts for the region, with Wednesday being a record 23rd consecutive day. People said it was like a solar eclipse, but longer, or the apocalypse, but less biblical. Some others called the darkness a metaphor for life in the days of global warming, of COVID-19, of social unrest, & of endless electioneering. Strange & foreboding it was & how long this would last was, like the sky, was unclear. For the 1st time ever, it felt like tomorrow’s sunrise no longer seemed a guarantee…
My stepmother was planning a week of dress making and then lockdown, so it will be autumn colours this year