The virus is rearing its head here in New Mexico, and case numbers are almost three times what they were a month ago. The state went into a two week lockdown this Monday, severely limiting the opportunity to leave the house. After a particularly trying couple of days, I needed a time outside to breathe. I made my way over to the Nature Center, which was also off limits due to the lockdown. Instead, I made my way into the bosque through the public bike path. There were only a handful of people out, and everyone I saw was in a mask. I brought along my Holga wide pinhole camera, and loaded it with some expired 800 ASA film. The speed allowed me to shoot hand-held…quite unheard of for pinhole photography. But since sharpness is a bourgeois concept anyway, so who cares if the images aren’t tack sharp. It’s a pinhole camera, after all.

Photography has been my respite through this crisis, and for that, I am grateful. How are you coping?