Is anyone besides me feeling a little stressed out by all the controversy over decisions being made to mitigate COVID-19? Here’s my prescription:
Pray.
Get outside and look at God-made things.
Take some deep breaths.
Take some photos.
Identify what you see and hear.
Take some more deep breaths.
Take some more photos.
Remind yourself that God made this world and He is in control.
Pray.
There ya go. Here’s what I saw today:
Maple trees budding.
I think this might be a European starling. Change my mind.
If you look carefully, you’ll see a Myrtle warbler in this photo. Look for yellow blobs. Clearly, I’m still having problems focusing and can’t blame the camera. Here’s a better photo that I found on the internet.
I like Myrtle. He’s a handsome dude.
More budding things, pushing through regardless of snow and 24 degree weather.
And so, in the midst of all this turmoil, I rejoice. Yes, I rejoice, and I am asking you to rejoice with me.
This is the day that the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
I’ll probably delete this tomorrow, rejoicing and singing.
P.S. I’ve noticed for the last few weeks that there’s something in the camera body making a spot on my photos – a dust speck? It shows up with both lenses. I’ve looked at some YouTube tutorials about what to do about it, but am a little intimidated by the process. What do you advise? Leave it to the professionals or take matters into my own hands?
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Sounds like you need your sensor to be cleaned at the very least. But maybe more. In normal times I would recommend taking it to National Camera Exchange or West Photo in the Twin Cities. Do you have camera repair available in Faribault?
Humans perform this service and there are consumer kits available so presumably you could do the the service yourself. Personally, I would take it to someone with experience.
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That’s kind of how I was feeling, but I figured that National Camera was probably closed. That’s where I got the camera. I don’t think there’s any local camera repair places. I’ll give NCE a call, just in case. Thanks for your reply!
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