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            First thought hit me as I looked at this photo: covid sure was a helluva thing. 

Hallie's fine, healthy, not to worry, it's not illness and death I'm talking about (this time)...it's disruption. 

Looking through my archive, so many people, models and photographers, had their careers rattled like a snow globe. The artistic exodus out of LA, folks having to retreat "home", I can only imagine the permanently altered life trajectories. 

Not the most important effect of the pandemic, to be sure, but a small slice of shift that might reflect on the whole. 

You come to LA to be a photographer, maybe things had gone well enough at home, figured it was time to try the big city. 

And it's, miraculously, going well! You've got clients, you've made friends, you're on your...what the fuck??

We can extend it out to all kinds of people, all kinds of careers. Not remarked upon nearly enough. For years, decades, I'll look back at that time and wonder what would've been, had it not happened. Suppose that's life in general, as I get older, looking back...but I'd actually gotten quite zen about it, life happened, life happens, we keep moving. 

Pandemic, though...really puts that mindset to the test.

Taken on: November 4, 2018

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11.4.18

Hallie Curtis

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Sets appears in: • 2018

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2.8, 1/125 sec, 50mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens:	Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	50mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Photos Extension 3.6.1
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