I can honestly say that prior to lockdown/social isolation I never really bothered that much to take my camera to our local park. I think when I started my 366 Project it did briefly accompany me on a few park trips, where we used to go in the afternoon in the summers to kick the ball with Oscar and let him crawl on the grass as our backyard has none. But ultimately, it was not an ‘exciting’ place for me to take pictures.
With limitations on travel due to coronavirus, I’ve felt stuck in a bit of a rut as a photographer. Usually I take photos in exciting places, with beautiful scenery and gorgeous light. By comparison, my local park with its ugly wire fence, dull sports oval and scattered gums seemed a bit… underwhelming.
But beggars can’t be choosers amidst a global pandemic, so when I got sick of taking pictures within my own four walls, I decided to try and look at that local park in a new way, with a new perspective, and see what came of it in terms of some captured images.
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