It is raining
I actually chose a rainy day to come here
it was not a mistake
even though it doesn't make much of a difference in these landscapes
it's very flat, there are no mountains or anything like that
I haven't seen a hill, let alone a mountain, in six months
but! I do have access to the great lakes
that's where I'm at today, I'm at Lake Michigan
it took me two hours to get here, but it was worth it
it's a very lovely day here
it is a little bit rainy but it's 60 degrees
and there is absolutely no one here
I have the whole place for myself
You're going to laugh, or cry
I didn't know which one to embrace when this happened
but you might know that I broke my camera, my main camera
I've been without it for almost two months now
I'm still waiting for it to come back
a few days ago, I dropped my other camera, my video camera, the camera that I'm using right now
again, at home
nothing really bad happened this time, luckily for me
but the flash doesn't really go back into where it should be
it doesn't stick
so it's always coming out, you know, popping out
it's really annoying, I'm using a rubber band today to keep it down
I should tape it once I'm back home
but yeah
look at this
it works!
we also fixed another couple of things that were wrong with hairball
because we...
well, we are gonna go on a trip next week
and I'm gonna go on another trip the following week
so yeah, this whole thing today was just a warm up for those two trips
because it had been a while since I went out and shoot
I've been stuck in a routine for the last two months
doing the same things, day after day after day
and that's fine, but I wanted to break the pattern
I wanted to just get out, go anywhere
to get used to be in the field again
so when I do go on those photography trips that are coming up
everything should be easier
it was actually pretty hard this morning to get out of the house
I had to push myself quite a lot
I've been wanting to come here for a few days, and I finally did it
somehow, it got pretty foggy
it looks beautiful outside