These are surreal times we are living these days. I’m not going into any detail on how my first week of “social distancing” and working from home went, it went ok. As an introvert I might say it went pretty well!

Anyways, the weather has turned nice and I needed to get out of the city at least for a few hours. The week-long hunt for a simple package of hamburger to make a lasagne took a toll. Our society is in trouble I think, there are no shortages of food yet people are hoarding, anyways, enough on that.

I left the city in Ansel, my self isolating transport pod (2010 Civic) before the sun was up to head to the southeast of Alberta. News free music on the Sirius XM in the pod. Other than getting out of the pod to take photographs and stopping for gas, I did not leave the pod, I had no human interaction, pay at the pump allowed that. I brought food from home. It was a good day.

I’m often inspired by trees in my photography, yesterday was such a day. I find trees so majestic, and settling, after this trip I can face another week of the insanity of the current state of the world. Social distancing doesn’t mean I need to stay locked up at home, after all, I have Ansel, my self isolating transport pod.

Here’s a few photographs I made yesterday on the digital camera, I’m going back to film soon, yesterday was about bringing myself back to center while I adjust to this new normal.

Enjoy :-)
Dean.