The problem for government is that there must be one rule for everybody (urban and rural, young and old, sensible and idiot) and it must be both clear when it is being broken and capable of bringing the epidemic under control. Of course, some people would keep to social distancing etc. if the rules were more flexible but a lot wouldn't and the consequences would be bad. Don't forget that the lockdown was introduced because the more relaxed regime of the previous week wasn't going to bring the epidemic under control (yeah, that seems a long time ago but it really wasn't...).

Steve

Can you support a local brewery that does doorstep delivery?

Steve

+1

Mine's like it most of the time when she's not eating or out for a walk - alternating heating up in the sun and cooling down out of the sun.

Steve

You've answered your own question. The rules are very clear, the restrictions apply to the purpose for leaving the house ("You should only leave the house for very limited purposes..."). So if your purpose for leaving the house is not permitted, do not do it. If the purpose is to take exercise, make sure you really are taking exercise and that any photography you do is incidental. If the reason you're going out is to take photographs, do not go out. If your reason for going out is to take pictures for publication, that is clearly not going out with the purpose of taking exercise.

Dog walking while taking human exercise is explicitly permitted, it's a matter of animal welfare. And you are permitted to walk a dog that belongs to a person who is isolating because they or a member of their household has the virus.

Of course, take a K1 + DA 560mm and you can legitimately claim that it's turning a walk into serious exercise.

Steve

Hardly a new phenomenom. Over 50 years ago I saw a car driver get fed up with waiting for traffic lights to change at a cross roads, so mounted the pavement, went past the light (still on the pavement) and took the left turn.

And just before the current lockdown, I helped a friend take his car in for repair because an idiot in a big car had come round a bend in a country lane on the wrong side of the road. He accused friend of driving too fast, to which friend said no, 25-30mph. Idiot refused to accept it, so friend asked the woman in the car behind him. She said it was hard to be exact, but something like 25-30mph. End of idiot's aggression. His insurance company is now paying for an expensive repair to a Lotus.

Reminds me of Latin classes at school: "After me class 2A: There were idiots; there are idiots; there will be idiots...". Or was that English grammar? Or French verbs?

Steve

My feeling about Gordon Ramsay wherever and whenever...

Steve

And there I was, feeling guilty on Monday for perfectly legally driving my wife to hospital (a blood test for something, not the virus thank goodness)...
Incognito police? Foreigners looking for a way to get home? Or senior officials and politicians imitating what's been going on in Scotland and New Zealand?

Just a thought: if you drive a car for a non-authorised purpose, is the insurance still valid?

Steve

To add a different point of view to LennyBloke - and this, of course, is also a matter of personal taste - the B&W version of Carpenter gets my vote. The reason is that to my eyes it has more of a 3-D feel than the others. Probably something to do with light and shade on the tools and the way the (i.e. my) eye is drawn into the picture from the tool at the front (a file?) backwards towards the tools in/on the bag.

It certainly makes you appreciate how carefully the Old Masters must have arranged their still life subjects before putting brush to pallette. And also how they had the advantage of being able to paint what they wanted to see rather than a precise representation of what was actually there...

Steve

At dusk yesterday during the usual (but later in the day) dog walk. K3 + 55-300 (original version).

For those who have looked at the 'Paths to...' thread, this is taking it to the limit - there's a path but you can't see it!

Comments welcome as always.




Steve

Well spotted, well shot. A good reminder that life carries on even when human life is disrupted.

Time to keep my ears open when walking the dog. Not so keen on carrying the DA*300mm while doing it, though...

Steve