Like most of you I’m sure, the current covid-19 situation has been a disruption to my photography routine. In some good ways and bad. I have been out exploring, but I am sticking to the Las Vegas/Boulder city area. Most national and state parks near my vicinity are closed so there isn’t much opportunity for any landscape work. BLM lands are open as far as I know, but the last thing I want is to have some type of emergency and now I am putting myself and other people at risk saving my rear end. I will say that it’s nice to not wake up at 2am and drive to a location to shoot. Building a photography career while also working a full-time job can lead to a lot of tiredness. Resting and catching up on sleep has been a long time coming. As my previous blog post stated, I have been documenting this situation here in Vegas and putting together a zine. It’s taking a bit longer than expected. My goal was to have 36 pages but I will probably pair that down to 24. I was finding that a lot of the images were feeling a bit redundant and wanted to stick to a very clear storyline as I assemble this zine. I still have a handful of images to go. I have ideas in my head, just need to go out and find them. In the meantime, been teaching myself Adobe InDesign to put together the layout. I decided on a printing company, magcloud to handle the printing and sales. The charity I am thinking of supporting is called Three Square. I am not sure how many of these zines will be sold so I wanted to make sure every dollar is utilized the best way possible. I am hoping I can be done here in the next couple of weeks. I just want to get this project done and move into the next. I have 3 photo book ideas that I was to move forward with. Also want to get into video. I created a YouTube channel in case I want to do something on there. I have a fuji X-T4 on preorder. Learning new skills and having different avenue of creativity can only be a good thing. At this point, I am making the best of a bad situation. I hope you all stay safe and healthy.