IF THE PANDEMIC ENDED AND WE WERE FREE TO TRAVEL....

Birddogman said:

Well, you're not gonna get any younger by next year. If I can do it at 75, you can at 71, buddy!

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Thanks for the encouraging words, Greg

Birddogman said:

Greg

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Bill
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Hopfully everyone will book an amazing all inclusive (minus alcohol and snacks),fully guided photography tour with my new business. It will be up and running once the pandemic ends. Central Newfoundland is an amazing diverse place where there are amazing views etc around every corner.

Can't wait to get going so I can show my part of the world, to the world.

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Mina J said:

Mina J wrote:
I get my second on March 19 and hope it goes as well as the first. You read things happening to people and get a little nervous but I think it will be fine.

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I got my second shot three weeks ago and (like others I know) was "knocked out" the next day. Didn't feel sick or ill at all, but really couldn't do much except sleep mostly all day. The next day was much better, and the third day everything was back to normal.

Jerry045 said:

Mina J said:

Jerry045 said:

Well we were scheduled to head to the mid-east in 2020. It got cancelled. It was rescheduled for 2021. It too got cancelled. Maybe next year.....

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Wow. I love all of those Jerry, especially the first one with the blue on the camel. It really adds something with the blue sky. I'm not sure where I want to go internationally but am very happy I've gone the places I have in the past. Like you and others on here we can enjoy all our wonderful photos like the one's in your post.

Mina

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Mina:

The first two were taken in Morocco. The last two were of Petra which was where we were supposed to go. I got those two off the internet. We were booked for a week in Israel then a week in Jordan. That did not happen as Covid shut those countries down.

Another tour we are looking at is an Eastern European tour through Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. That looks a bit less strenuous to us. We are waiting for some normalcy to return before we decide where we want to go.

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Wherever you decide to go, I know you'll have a great time and we get to see your awesome photos when you return

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"A photograph is a mirror that remembers"
By Blind Tom 1849-1908

Mina J said:

Jerry045 said:

Mina J said:

Jerry045 said:

Well we were scheduled to head to the mid-east in 2020. It got cancelled. It was rescheduled for 2021. It too got cancelled. Maybe next year.....

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Wow. I love all of those Jerry, especially the first one with the blue on the camel. It really adds something with the blue sky. I'm not sure where I want to go internationally but am very happy I've gone the places I have in the past. Like you and others on here we can enjoy all our wonderful photos like the one's in your post.

Mina

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Mina:

The first two were taken in Morocco. The last two were of Petra which was where we were supposed to go. I got those two off the internet. We were booked for a week in Israel then a week in Jordan. That did not happen as Covid shut those countries down.

Another tour we are looking at is an Eastern European tour through Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. That looks a bit less strenuous to us. We are waiting for some normalcy to return before we decide where we want to go.

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Wherever you decide to go, I know you'll have a great time and we get to see your awesome photos when you return

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Thank you Mina. I do enjoy seeing your photos also, especially your grandchild ones.

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Jerry

I would like to go to Colombia and perhaps bring back some co....co......co.........coffee!

Jerry045 said:

Mina J said:

Jerry045 said:

Mina J said:

Jerry045 said:

Well we were scheduled to head to the mid-east in 2020. It got cancelled. It was rescheduled for 2021. It too got cancelled. Maybe next year.....

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Wow. I love all of those Jerry, especially the first one with the blue on the camel. It really adds something with the blue sky. I'm not sure where I want to go internationally but am very happy I've gone the places I have in the past. Like you and others on here we can enjoy all our wonderful photos like the one's in your post.

Mina

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Mina:

The first two were taken in Morocco. The last two were of Petra which was where we were supposed to go. I got those two off the internet. We were booked for a week in Israel then a week in Jordan. That did not happen as Covid shut those countries down.

Another tour we are looking at is an Eastern European tour through Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. That looks a bit less strenuous to us. We are waiting for some normalcy to return before we decide where we want to go.

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Wherever you decide to go, I know you'll have a great time and we get to see your awesome photos when you return

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Thank you Mina. I do enjoy seeing your photos also, especially your grandchild ones.

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Thank you so much Jerry!

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"A photograph is a mirror that remembers"
By Blind Tom 1849-1908

Birds, birds, birds. South America, Central America, Africa. Everywhere. I would go crazy and explode. Probably get eaten by a large animal in some swamp also. That's actually the way I want to go -- being eaten while on a birding trip.

66GTO said:

Where would you go, and what would you make photos of?

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April Latvia for models (unlikely)

May Budapest for Architecture (unlikely)

May Ukraine or Britanny (France) for models

June England for Family

August Prague for models and Rome for an exhibition (all by car)

September Marseille (France) for Models

October Tel Aviv for Models

December Loire Valley (France) for Models

September 2021 Australia for Family via Thailand and Vietnam

This sounds like a lot but it's actually not that expensive. The main thing to do is avoid frittering my money away on photography gear..

Franglais91 said:

66GTO said:

Where would you go, and what would you make photos of?

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April Latvia for models (unlikely)

May Budapest for Architecture (unlikely)

May Ukraine or Britanny (France) for models

June England for Family

August Prague for models and Rome for an exhibition (all by car)

September Marseille (France) for Models

October Tel Aviv for Models

December Loire Valley (France) for Models

September 2021 Australia

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Really check about the Aussie compulsory 2 week you pay stay in hotel quarantine that sometimes can get extended by a few days. https://www.health.gov.au/news/heal...-covid-19-advice-for-international-travellers

The pandemic risk here currently is extremely low, we just had in Sydney a run of over 50 days of no local cases before we had a "leak" from a hotel quarantine situation.

Currently we expect most Aussies will have at least their first vaccination shot by October but it will be early 2022 before internally we could be called basically free of virus risk. It's ALWAYS the incoming travellers and returnees that carry the virus into Australia hence our strict quarantine setup.

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for Family via Thailand and Vietnam

This sounds like a lot but it's actually not that expensive. The main thing to do is avoid frittering my money away on photography gear..

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If the gear you have works then all is good, I've stopped buying, and that is one reason the camera companies are suffering.

AFRICA Calling ..... booked for 18 Sept 2021 (after cancelling May 2020 and Feb 2021)

Is it really 2021 already? I meant Australia and Thailand and Vietnam in September 2022.

Thanks for the warnings anyway. You're lucky because you can live more or less normally in Australia. I'm in the Paris area which is really a hotspot and I don't go out of the house if I can avoid it.

However we're not actually in Lockdown. All of France has a 6pm-6am curfew. I went on a landscape trip to Britanny last week and discovered I couldn't do any spectacular sunsets because it was one hour after the curfew.

I've been supporting the camera companies by trading in my old film camera classics (Leica, Hasselblad) for new mirrorless gear. I'm delighted. I now do the same pictures on my Nikon Z5 as I used to do on my beloved Hasselblad.

It's all too uncertain for me. Open up, shut down, temporary lockdowns, quarrantine, red and green lists ..... flights on, off, nope. In England, pubs and restaurants will be allowed to open for outdoor drinking and dining from sometime in April, but are fully booked for weeks and weeks ahead. Non locals have no chance. Lots of accommodation fully booked, even camp sites full.

Criteria for this year for me is somewhere I can drive to (so get back from) and won't break the bank if I have to cancel. It will be a very long time befors I book a holiday where you have to go through 2 or 3 'hubs' like our trip to NZ in 2018. Great though that was, the prospect of being stuck somewhere is not one to relish.

I really want to go somewhere that has decent bars and restaurants, open, a chance to have a good breakfast served in the dining room of the hotel not in your room, galleries and museums you don't have to book in advance so you can just drop in on rainy days and a chance to sit and enjoy a beer on a terrace in the evening. and even talk to other people like normal. Not much chance of that any time soon. It will have to be off season, remote and a cottage or apartment. I can enjoy that without the rest of it.

But, accepting your premise that it might be 'over' - a short break in a European city I've not been to before, a short break to a sunny warm seaside town and a 3 week trundle through France to Alps or Pyrennees via small Logis with decent restaurants and places with local walks.

As for photographs, you don't need 'special places' for interesting images. Looking back on my photos from the late 1960's to now, I wish I had more of the ordinary stuff and not just 'fancy places' I visited. How many million grand canyon sunsets have been snapped? How many of Manchester city centre before the great concrete lump of the Arndale led to demolition, or a car park full of what are now classics. A good eye, not a good trip.





Bit blue, the Eaktachrome doidn't age well. c. 1976.

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It's all too uncertain for me. Open up, shut down, temporary lockdowns, quarrantine, red and green lists ..... flights on, off, nope. In England, pubs and restaurants will be allowed to open for outdoor drinking and dining from sometime in April, but are fully booked for weeks and weeks ahead. Non locals have no chance. Lots of accommodation fully booked, even camp sites full.

Criteria for this year for me is somewhere I can drive to (so get back from) and won't break the bank if I have to cancel. It will be a very long time befors I book a holiday where you have to go through 2 or 3 'hubs' like our trip to NZ in 2018. Great though that was, the prospect of being stuck somewhere is not one to relish.

I really want to go somewhere that has decent bars and restaurants, open, a chance to have a good breakfast served in the dining room of the hotel not in your room, galleries and museums you don't have to book in advance so you can just drop in on rainy days and a chance to sit and enjoy a beer on a terrace in the evening. and even talk to other people like normal. Not much chance of that any time soon. It will have to be off season, remote and a cottage or apartment. I can enjoy that without the rest of it.

But, accepting your premise that it might be 'over' - a short break in a European city I've not been to before, a short break to a sunny warm seaside town and a 3 week trundle through France to Alps or Pyrennees via small Logis with decent restaurants and places with local walks.

As for photographs, you don't need 'special places' for interesting images. Looking back on my photos from the late 1960's to now, I wish I had more of the ordinary stuff and not just 'fancy places' I visited. How many million grand canyon sunsets have been snapped? How many of Manchester city centre before the great concrete lump of the Arndale led to demolition, or a car park full of what are now classics. A good eye, not a good trip.



Bit blue, the Eaktachrome doidn't age well. c. 1976.

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So I Choose my Battles
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I live in the Paris area. I've been travelling around France quite a bit recently (by car) despite the pandemic. To be honest the Paris area is one of the most infected areas at the moment. Going almost anywhere else is a relief and an opportunity to get out of the house.

The French Government is trying very hard to avoid having a general lockdown by having a general curfew from 6pm to 6am, making masks obligatory in some areas and closing risky non-essential businesses like bars and restaurants. In fact one problem when travelling is to get to the MacDrive for take-away lunch before the locals get there. Restaurants on autoroutes are open for take-away but out in deep France there are just the boulangeries (who close at 12h30 generally)

I'm optimistic for the Summer. The population is now fairly sophisticated (except the young people) and we have managed to keep the infection just under the crisis level. I am expecting things to improve by mid-April. If they don't - a short sharp Lockdown worked like a charm back in November.

I expect that this Summer you will be able to have your breakfast in the dining room of your Logis - which will seem strangely empty with only half the tables occupied. You will have to wear a mask when moving around the hotel and when in other indoors places like shopping centers. Restaurants and bars will be open, if we're lucky but you may have to eat outside on the terrace. This is what we did last summer and it was OK.

Richard_CC said:

It's all too uncertain for me. Open up, shut down, temporary lockdowns, quarrantine, red and green lists ..... flights on, off, nope. In England, pubs and restaurants will be allowed to open for outdoor drinking and dining from sometime in April, but are fully booked for weeks and weeks ahead. Non locals have no chance. Lots of accommodation fully booked, even camp sites full.

Criteria for this year for me is somewhere I can drive to (so get back from) and won't break the bank if I have to cancel. It will be a very long time befors I book a holiday where you have to go through 2 or 3 'hubs' like our trip to NZ in 2018. Great though that was, the prospect of being stuck somewhere is not one to relish.

I really want to go somewhere that has decent bars and restaurants, open, a chance to have a good breakfast served in the dining room of the hotel not in your room, galleries and museums you don't have to book in advance so you can just drop in on rainy days and a chance to sit and enjoy a beer on a terrace in the evening. and even talk to other people like normal. Not much chance of that any time soon. It will have to be off season, remote and a cottage or apartment. I can enjoy that without the rest of it.

But, accepting your premise that it might be 'over' - a short break in a European city I've not been to before, a short break to a sunny warm seaside town and a 3 week trundle through France to Alps or Pyrennees via small Logis with decent restaurants and places with local walks.

As for photographs, you don't need 'special places' for interesting images. Looking back on my photos from the late 1960's to now, I wish I had more of the ordinary stuff and not just 'fancy places' I visited. How many million grand canyon sunsets have been snapped? How many of Manchester city centre before the great concrete lump of the Arndale led to demolition, or a car park full of what are now classics. A good eye, not a good trip.



Bit blue, the Eaktachrome doidn't age well. c. 1976.

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" As for photographs, you don't need 'special places' for interesting images. Looking back on my photos from the late 1960's to now, I wish I had more of the ordinary stuff and not just 'fancy places' I visited. "

My sentiments exactly! So many places, people, etc. which I turned up my nose at and not take a pic are gone for good. All I have are uncertain, fading memories of what was.

KB

I wish you the best in your journey's

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Richard_CC said:

It's all too uncertain for me. Open up, shut down, temporary lockdowns, quarrantine, red and green lists ..... flights on, off, nope. In England, pubs and restaurants will be allowed to open for outdoor drinking and dining from sometime in April, but are fully booked for weeks and weeks ahead. Non locals have no chance. Lots of accommodation fully booked, even camp sites full.

Criteria for this year for me is somewhere I can drive to (so get back from) and won't break the bank if I have to cancel. It will be a very long time befors I book a holiday where you have to go through 2 or 3 'hubs' like our trip to NZ in 2018. Great though that was, the prospect of being stuck somewhere is not one to relish.

I really want to go somewhere that has decent bars and restaurants, open, a chance to have a good breakfast served in the dining room of the hotel not in your room, galleries and museums you don't have to book in advance so you can just drop in on rainy days and a chance to sit and enjoy a beer on a terrace in the evening. and even talk to other people like normal. Not much chance of that any time soon. It will have to be off season, remote and a cottage or apartment. I can enjoy that without the rest of it.

But, accepting your premise that it might be 'over' - a short break in a European city I've not been to before, a short break to a sunny warm seaside town and a 3 week trundle through France to Alps or Pyrennees via small Logis with decent restaurants and places with local walks.

As for photographs, you don't need 'special places' for interesting images. Looking back on my photos from the late 1960's to now, I wish I had more of the ordinary stuff and not just 'fancy places' I visited. How many million grand canyon sunsets have been snapped? How many of Manchester city centre before the great concrete lump of the Arndale led to demolition, or a car park full of what are now classics. A good eye, not a good trip.



Bit blue, the Eaktachrome doidn't age well. c. 1976.

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" As for photographs, you don't need 'special places' for interesting images. Looking back on my photos from the late 1960's to now, I wish I had more of the ordinary stuff and not just 'fancy places' I visited. "

My sentiments exactly! So many places, people, etc. which I turned up my nose at and not take a pic are gone for good. All I have are uncertain, fading memories of what was.

KB

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Maybe, but you make magic with what you have now.

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Thanks Bill, I just picked it to demonstrate the point and didn't spend time fixing. Even durimg lockdown I've not got round to correcting my 3500 scans of slides Its quick, but I end up diverted into thinking about them.

Must be just me, I love the blue. Gives it an old, worn feel to it. The corrected image is very low fi too. I love film.

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