RSD Photography: More or Less - Life in the UK, April 2020

Never in our lifetime have we had to live through a global pandemic such as Covid-19 which we are all presently enduring. Such a tragedy has affected all of our lives to a greater or lesser extent. I myself, apart from several days of feeling unwell at the start of the UK lockdown period, have remained positive and tried to keep busy when not working. I have done more gardening, some DIY projects, made a couple of Airfix aircraft models, started film processing and printing again and started this blog about photography.

I thought I would take a series of black and white photographs to document a snapshot of what life has been like in recent weeks. I have called it "More or Less" as not only have there been many negative impacts felt but also positive ones as a result of this dramatic change to all of our daily lives.

All images were shot using an Olympus OM2n camera with either 24mm, 35mm or 50mm lenses and Ilford FP4 Plus film, developed in Ilfosol developer. I have photographed the negatives using a Nikon digital camera with macro lens on the copy stand as described in my previous blog. All images were converted to positives and post-processed in Lightroom 6.