I’m very late. As I mentioned in the last post of 2019, January 2020 was my vacation month and I took one of my analog cameras with me. Here in Brazil, Coronavirus was only on the news. However, the pandemic that devastated China and Europe in the first months of 2020, is between us now. Here, as in the rest of the world, we are trying to follow the social isolation steps and beware with the most vulnerable. I have nothing to say about the virus, but I remembered a series of photos that I took in January 2019 (the ones from this year will be shown in another moment). My vacation was in Região dos Lagos, located in Rio de Janeiro state. We visited so many places with wonderful beaches such as Arraial do Cabo, Cabo Frio, Armação dos Búzios and Rio das Ostras. The photos were taken with an amazing rangefinder Minolta Minoltina S from 1964. I keep this camera very carefully and even the Selenium Exposure Light Meter remains working although it’s not complete calibrated. All these photos are from Rio das Ostras and I decided to post them just because people are distant from each other. I was at a pier and what attracted me was the fact that even in a crowded beach, sometimes desert places took place. From time to time, a walker and another appeared and as in a final chess game where there isn’t lots of pieces. Sometimes you are on your own and can feel yourself in the middle of a crowd, but the most common is to be in the middle of a crowd but feel lonely.
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