It begins...

First time out with the idea that maybe I can distract myself with what I have now and close by. 
(Instead of inhabiting the ambient anxiety about what I don't or what I can't.)

Sure the fact that the local atmosphere was charged. With Tartu being European Capital of Culture 2024, with the slogan: “Arts of Survival”. Indeed.

What am I no longer noticing?

The idea was to test if doing close-up photography, handheld, spontaneously, would change anything in my perception of the world which has become, well, quite gray.  (In some sense it was an escape from actively doing almost nothing, instead of doom-scrolling.)

I almost forced myself outside with camera and a prototype close-up lens derived from my LCDVF viewfinder achromatic eyepiece prototypes from 2008.

Returned with a smile and wrote down: "Inhale, exhale, macro!”

Ok, technically not macro, but I experienced something in our completely mundane backyard that I had not noticed before: I had approached it differently.