Post Pandemic, how many times do you shoot a month....

[CountingGx85Gx8G9s]

Every shot counts - cell phone, camera, or drone. I don't care if its studio, macro, BIF, or other, at home, far away, on your lunch break.

I probably image 2 times a week, sometimes it's just a yard macro or table top image of fossils - other times it's a hour or so. Way down from say retirement to about 12 years after retirement. Now at 17 years after retirement (am 72 now) with a disability more careful of where I go as well as shooting a lot more video which requires a longer and more difficult post processing. One good video or image is all I want and so far it's working and keeping me engaged. What's your story?

 

[theoldsmithy]

I'm shooting a LOT less. Not travelling as much, and I think I've exhausted the opportunities on the regular dog walk. Even the garden is giving up the ghost after the drought we've suffered this summer.

 

[drd1135]

I shot at least a few everyday for the Day-to-Day challenge. I probably average 15-20 shots a day with a wide standard deviation. The iPhone 12 was the first phone cam that I really found acceptable and it shows in my photography. A definite plus overall because it is always with me. One of my favorite mental (photography) games is thinking of how Cartier-Bresson would have used a smartphone as a camera.

 

[MiguelATF]

My basic post-pandemic shooting formula boils down to: try to take at least one photograph for every cup of coffee I consume.
Not the most scientific approach, but it seems to have motivated me so far ...

 

[gryphon1911]

My volume of photography hasn’t really changed, the locations and where I go have.

 

[Fuji Son]

If it's not raining, then I'm out and about with my camera.

 

[Glennn]

I rolled over to the daily challenge after finishing the Single In challenge mainly just to keep myself going. I work all over the place so I’ll sometimes look up parks on the way home and do a quick stop. I definitely haven’t done nearly as many proper photo walks as last year though.

 

[RichardC]

Every day.

 

[turbodieselvw]

I shoot 0 to a thousand plus shots daily unless it’s raining. Zero because on some days when I’m out, there’s really nothing that will entice me from turning on the camera.

 

[JensM]

I am somewhat in the same league that I always has been, when not having assigned tasks of sorts. I am a period shooter.

Rutting for a periode, then a periode of "hyperactivity" then another rut, and so the cycles continue.

 

[MoonMind]

I shoot *a lot* more than I did before 2020 - even though I've been shooting very regularily over the last ten years. Initiating the Single In and Daily-cum-Today challenges have turned photography into a daily (and cherished) routine. I *need* at least one usable shot per day, but on a good one, I come home with half a dozen or more (more than twenty when I have time for a dedicated photo walk). Conveniently, my long-term average has been seven shots a day for quite some time now (not counting assignments).

M.

 

[agentlossing]

I shoot the same if not more. Photography was an experience which helped ease the stress and isolation of the pandemic for me. And when I get the chance to shoot on the street now, I am like a kid in a candy store since there was so little of that for over two years. But as a kind of ritual it helped give structure to a difficult time, I'm glad about that.

 

[drd1135]

My basic post-pandemic shooting formula boils down to: try to take at least one photograph for every cup of coffee I consume.
Not the most scientific approach, but it seems to have motivated me so far ...

Just like me. 15/20 shots per day.

 

[doobs]

I'm probably a little less, but that is more attributed to the fact that I sold my house in Reston,VA in March of 2021 and moved to Fairfax City, VA

In Reston we lived next to a walking path that I always took a camera with me as there was always something new to shoot.

My walks in Fairfax rapidly used up the photo opportunities. It's very scenic and photogenic, but there isn't a lot of it.

So now, I have to go other places to shoot.

 

[John King]

I have become more agoraphobic over the last 6 years or so (not clinically, just circumstance and habit).

With my heart conditions, I am somewhat wary about catching Covid-19. If I did, it might well kill me ...

Always wear a mask, keep my distance, won't use public transport (with or without wings, or a hull).

So many days, none. Trying to do more.

I really do need to get out more ...

 

[MoonMind]

Just like me. 15/20 shots per day.

I'm familiar with that kind of routine. A (hopefully) delicious way of keeping life electrifying ... I drank up to three litres(!) of coffee a day when I was at university - insane!

On a more serious note, I actually all but ruined my stomach - and probably more; it took several years of abstinence to get it back into a livable state (more than 20 years back now, thankfully). Complete withdrawal was literally painful for a couple of days, too - definitely something to avoid if possible.

Three, maybe four cups a day now. No more seasickness on dry land - much more enjoyable. The coffee, too.

M.

 

[John King]

I'm familiar with that kind of routine. A (hopefully) delicious way of keeping life electrifying ... I drank up to three litres(!) of coffee a day when I was at university - insane!

On a more serious note, I actually all but ruined my stomach - and probably more; it took several years of abstinence to get it back into a livable state (more than 20 years back now, thankfully). Complete withdrawal was literally painful for a couple of days, too - definitely something to avoid if possible.

Three, maybe four cups a day now. No more seasickness on dry land - much more enjoyable. The coffee, too.

M.

Having ADHD, caffeine calms me down, as does Ritalin.

The latter mixed with a lot of Valium (in an operating theatre for a conscious angiogram - ugh!!) really put me in lala land. Needless to say, I tolerated the procedure well! I also have unfond memories of both it and the cardiac ablation I had while conscious. Fascinating processes, but cannot say that either was enjoyable.

Fortunately, I do not have any kind of addictive response to any of these medications. Ditto opiates, taken on numerous occasions during my life (legally prescribed)

 

[drd1135]

I tend to drink cold coffee as I have gotten older. Since it has become a daily beverage for me, I make a mix of regular and decaffeinated coffee that gives me the kind of biochemical encouragement I like to get though my day. Besides, I come from (what I have read) the only country that drinks most of its tea cold. I tried drinking iced tea all day but I prefer coffee.

 

[CountingGx85Gx8G9s]

When I was a partner in a relatively large firm I had a coffee pot in my room, and worked long hours. Mistake. Now a cup of coffee in the morning after my 25 pushups and 25 deep knee bends (only thing that stopped my knee issues). Drink decaf tea (hot) or water the rest of time. Never go shooting without my aluminum trail thermos.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Every day. Sometimes it's throw away photos in the house late at night. I've always had enough subject material around me that I don't need to go anywhere. A garden and a lens capable of macro is a gold mine, and I don't mean flowers, though you can shoot those too.