Photography
Everything’s shut. Nothing’s opened. Another day goes by as I take the route along the canal, occasionally going off the path to take a look at some of the pubs that have shut up shop. Where once we had a bustling high street, we now have eerie, Hopperesque scenes of life without life, establishments without patrons, and empty chairs at empty tables.
Sometimes it takes some time inside to really appreciate nature again. Regent’s Canal is one of those places I have been lucky enough to live near. It really is an underrated part of the London; an area with beautiful boathouses each with their own unique character set against a canal that at night is filled with rippling reflections of the sunset. I loved walking past it during the time before the quarantine and I love it even more now.
Now that London is on complete lockdown, everyone is spending a lot more time inside. Everyone has a lot more time. Books will be read, content consumed and what will I be doing? I’m trying to take this period of unemployment with no end in sight, as a gift of time. I’m using it to do what I never did. I’m building a profile, I’m creating content, I’m pursuing small acts of creativity that I always promised I would. I have been gifted this time, and I hope to fill all the broken promises I made to myself. New Year’s resolutions don’t normally get done for me, for one reason or another. I always try to do what I can to live a normal life full of ‘going out’ and ‘socialising’ but now, we’re all in the same place. I tried a lot, but I never achieved anything. This is a good time to change that.
It’s a strange time. It’s an unprecedented time. The Coronavirus crisis that is gripping the whole planet means that I have a lot more free time now, so I thought that I’d make this site live and fill it with the few photos I was able to take along the canal a short distance from my flat. The neighbourhood is relatively quiet, it always is. At this time, that is a good thing.
