As we are running out of road in 2021 it might be time for some of my favourites from the year.
I’ll start with this one, Winter Solace in the Royal National Park Sydney. One of my favourite subjects are natures trees.
There’s something about the changing seasons and mixed in with changing light of those seasons that makes for a special picture if you find the right tree.
It’s also a pretty fair representation of the times we were living in during the Covid year of 2021.
The main thing I remember of shooting this was it freezing cold and I couldn’t feel my hands as I was trying to fire away in the gully of Audley pre sunrise, in the heart of the Royal National Park. But it’s a pretty cool pic and I like it.
It was shot in the Winter of 2021 and in the middle of the city’s Covid lockdown. Where there wasn’t much to do and we were pretty much relegated to a walk in our own areas as our only form of exercise.
It was a pretty weird time in our history, and with the cases hanging around the 1000 per day, we weren’t too sure how long it lasted for. But after around 3 months of a Sydney lockdown and as our vaccinations hit the 90% mark we returned to some normalcy in October of 2021.
At the time too not knowing that by late December we’d have a new Premier in NSW and that case numbers were up to 5000-10000 per day and climbing.
So it feels a little strange that we went into lockdown with case numbers at 100 earlier in the year but now with case numbers in the thousands we are out of lockdown.
Granted most people are double if not triple vaccinated. But it all seems kind of strange.
But in these Covid years what isn’t.
This is my last post for 2021 and I’d like to thank everyone who has read and supported this little photography blog of mine. It’s been awesome and I hope it has been informative.
Happy New Year to you all 🥳🙌🏻
Til next time (year)
Chris Lane
Chasing Light by Chris Lane 