A Photo a Day 2020 #275

This month's theme is 'the number three'. Today's photo is a little snapshot of Covid-life in the workplace.

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Rays

The evening sun in the field over the (now) tall grass.

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The Lost One

She's gone from being a sleepy house cat (most of the time) to a dirty stop out over the last few weeks. It's a bit sad, but she's young and she heard the lockdown was being eased, so she's disowned us now.

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Spools

I couldn't post this until I'd properly edited it and I was happy with the perspective as the original was at a bit of an angle. I'm getting back into using Photoshop again which is a learning process as I'm self-taught and I forgot a lot of what I learned a few years ago; Picmonkey is amazing and I use it for a lot of my editing, but it is a lazier approach and can be limiting at times. 

This cassette tape is actually one from my youth and it is one of about five tapes that I have recently reclaimed and listened to on the 'walkman' that I got for Christmas. There are some pretty embarrassing recordings amongst these tapes, including some very ropy guitar practice that I did aged about fifteen that seems to go on for ages. Also featuring on another tape is a French project a friend and I did at school, pretending we had been exploring the jungle. Among our reportage (en Francais, bien sur!) can be heard Sash's classic 'Equador' and some character acting in the role of Jean-Luc-- a fictional French camera man who was bitten by a spider and shouted "Ooh la la!" and 'Oh de don!' at regular intervals.

This was the format of my first foray into owning music back in the 90s. I then progressed to CDs, and now it's vinyl that I'm collecting. These cassette tapes weren't practical in the slightest. They got chewed up and worn out and twisted up and the batteries ran out in your tape player and then it played really slow like a depressing remix of the original song. But they are nostalgic and you could create your own mix tapes and radio shows with ease. In fact, these things were as much a rite of passage for 90s kids as getting a Snapchat account nowadays. But way cooler!

Getting Back into Photography

2017 was the year I really got into photography. Since then, I have still had a love for taking photos, but my 'Triptych a week' project came to an abrupt end only a few weeks into 2018- life took over. 

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Crunchy

Autumn leaves decaying

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Tiny

Maisie caught a tiny mouse in the garden so I rescued it. Considering my phobia of mice (following traumatic encounters in student housing), I felt really sad for this little baby who was limping about trying to hide from our cat. I'm not sure whether it survived after the shock. Nature is cruel.

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Cooling Down

I often edit my photos to be black and white, but this was actually taken in the B&W mode in high contrast. This was taken in the garden of our rented house, so this isn't something we purchased, but it reminds me of something you could find in The Secret Garden. I liked the contrast between the fence and the light above in the background.

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Mushrooms

I have a slight phobia of mushrooms...

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Retirement

A fallen tree in the grounds of Knole House

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Weathered Hearts

A photo that had to be in black and white in my opinion. The contrast of the patterns and imperfect quality of the leaves strike me as symbolic given their shape.
I think we all feel like one of these leaves sometimes.