One of the first things one can do during the COVID-19 shutdown is to tackle some of those photo projects that have been sitting on the back burner for months and even years. This is what I have started to do and my first project was to get this website up and running. I’ve also started to revisit images that I shot years ago. I can now recognize (and edit) those “diamonds in the rough” that are just sitting on my hard drive (like the image shown below).

I’m now tweaking it a bit, like adding this blog and am moving onto other projects. There are certainly photographic projects one can do while hanging around home; there are lots of things to photograph, old images that need to be cleaned up or re-edited, new skills to pick up (from free or pay sites) and then trying out those new skills.

Right now I am looking at sharpening up my skills to make a photo book, working on some new still-lift lighting techniques and working with some tools that I used to be reasonably good at, but have not used over the past few years.