Breaking the Quarantine

Here I am, 2 months into the covid19 fun and games, and on the vulnerable list. So the last time I’ve been outside somewhere that wasnt my garden was to hike Kinder Scout in the peak district… In March.

Well today, I’m breaking Quarantine.

3am - waking up this early seemed like the best idea, get up and get out, should be able to park up for 3:30 and be on my way to Coombe abbey for golden hour. First mistake there of course is I’m not a morning person, so 3am became 3:30 before id gotten up, and my walk went from 3:30 to 4, but we make do.

All of this did mean I committed a cardinal photography sin. I ended up chasing the light, and what a sunrise it was, just a shame that it was visible in odds and sods through a thick hedgerow, and mostly gone by the time I made it to Coombe!

Coombe Abbey Country Park Visitors Centre

Some shots were taken, rushed and unrefined with what little of the light was left, but at least I got to see the rabbits and sheep!! So many Rabbits, so many…

A few macro shots later and homeward bound and its not even 6am.

The world as it is currently is still pretty much a no go for me, and i’ll have to work out new things to take photos of that I can shoot from home, but at least for one day I got to sneak out before the world had woken, and get a 2 hour, wander around done, it may only have been about 4 miles but at times like these that’s all it needed to be.

Mark Elwick