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Quarantine 1 – Staying Busy

Staying Home

Neighborhood stream photographed during a daily quarantine walk in Falls Church, VA ©TimeLine Media
Neighborhood stream photographed during a daily quarantine walk

This quaratine time has been a tremendous change to our daily life. Everyone I am in contact with is working from home. Video conference calls are a daily event. Thankfully in this high tech time, everything is working!

What are you doing during this time that we are forced to stay at home? On one hand, I am working very similarly to how I did before. On the other, I have no photo shoots or events to plan. With this in mind, I have turned to working on my business. While I work at home, I have been listening to many podcasts and YouTube channels of other creatives. Similarly, the content has moved in parallel directions. There are tips on keeping productive, on cleaning up your contracts, on honing photography skills inside etc.

Holmes Run in Falls Church, VA stream in infrared ©TimeLine Media
Holmes Run stream in infrared

Quarantine 1

In contrast, I am not looking for things to do while staying at home. If I am successful with my efforts, my blog will hopefully look a lot more full! It has been an aspiration of mine to get back to blogging which I did more regularly. Seeing that it was a great way to document the photos shoots, and to remember what the environment was like when I made the photos.

Given that I enjoyed reviewing these posts, I want to go back to old events, and put them on the blog. At the same time, I will attempt to keep current with the posts as well. The photos from this Quaratine 1 post are from some of the daily walks. Every day we are taking walks, and bring a camera with me. These were taken with my first DSLR camera – the Nikon D100. It has a very low megapixel count, and I converted it to only capture infrared light.

So far it has been enough to capture something different when repeatedly passing the same areas over the last month! I hope you are staying safe at home. If you are getting around to do things that you were putting off until you had time to get to it, please let me know. Maybe there is something I should be doing that I have not thought to do yet.

Quaratine 1 walk through a neighborhood park, Falls Church, VA ©TimeLine Media
Quarantine 1 walk through a neighborhood park

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Zion National Park

The Watchman at Zion National Park ©TimeLine Media
The Watchman at Zion National Park ©TimeLine Media

Springdale, Utah

Last summer, we spent a couple of days touring Zion National Park. Undeniably this is a place to exercise your photography skills. Surprisingly, I was happier with the photos from here compared to the Grand Canyon. In contrast to my shoot at the canyon, I was confident I had something memorable. The light at sunrise and sunset was beautiful against the tall mountains. Accordingly the deep blue skies were a nice compliment to the sandy colored mountains.

Early morning light on mountain top in Zion National Park ©TimeLine Media
Early morning light on mountain top in Zion National Park ©TimeLine Media
Early morning light on mountain top in Zion National Park ©TimeLine Media

In the middle of the day, the hard shadows emphasize the crevasses against the mountain. Since it was not the best time of day to shoot, we did a lot of hiking at this time. Angels Landing was suggested by our tour guide as a challenge to complete. Seeing that I had not heard of this trail before, we researched it and attempted the long hike. To that end, we were treated to a breathtaking view from the top! Although the trail continued on, I did not have the courage to continue the section studded with chains. My fear of heights and my camera gear haul would not let me go any further!

Virgin River through the valley ©TimeLine Media
Looking into the valley from Angel's Landing ©TimeLine Media
Looking into the valley from Angel’s Landing ©TimeLine Media
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Milky Way galaxy center over dark skies ©TimeLine Media
Milky Way galaxy center over dark skies ©TimeLine Media

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Monument Valley

John Ford point in Monument Valley with a rider on a horse ©TimeLine Media
John Ford point with a rider on a horse ©TimeLine Media

Utah and Arizona

Continuing a series of posts from a trip to the Southwest United States, this is from a stop in Monument Valley, UT. Without a doubt, this was one place I knew was going to be a bucket-list place to make photos. Being that it is in so many movies, it is almost instantly recognizable as the American West. The initial photo is from John Ford Point named for the director of many movies in the Westerns genre. This was above all the most tourist-y place in the park, but having a rider on a horse in that setting is worthy of a cliche image.

Panorama stitch of multiple photos at Monument Valley ©TimeLine Media
Panorama stitch of photos at the Navajo Tribal Park Visitor Center ©TimeLine Media
Thumb Butte along the Navajo trail ©TimeLine Media
Thumb Butte along the Navajo trail ©TimeLine Media

From a photography perspective, there is a pleasing combination of colors here. On one hand the clear blue skies complements the red sands of the rock. With the dry desert air, there is no haze to contend with making all the images sharp right out of camera.

West Mitten Butte and East Mitten Butte ©TimeLine Media
West Mitten Butte and East Mitten Butte ©TimeLine Media
Close up of large butte ©TimeLine Media
Along the car trail through Monument Valley ©TimeLine Media

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