[GR02.01] roses, indoors, Venice

42mm 1/30 sec f/5.6 200Taken December 1st, 2019 – the day I bought a D3500, my first "real" camera, with a detachable lens camera and a manual mode and everything.I think about that apartment in Venice all the time. I know I was depressed, because I said a lot of things like, "I am very depressed," and because I bought that camera in an effort to creative my way out of being depressed, and because I moved to Los Angeles to try to escape a professional situation that I believed was making me depressed, and because I took pictures like this, and because there were pictures like this to be taken all over my apartment.But mostly in Los Angeles I remember being happy. Mostly I remember walking around and taking photographs, and walking down to the beach on lunch breaks, and liking and being liked in the LA office. I have to apply some effort to remember that, at the time, the main story I was telling myself was that I was having a very difficult time.By the way – if you like this…