Weekends Discussions

I am going out to photograph Grosbeaks at the Arboretum and go for a nice stroll around the grounds

We have got a lot of snow today, so I'll go to shoot snow sceneries
May I can try take some of macros too

Hi ^^ always busy this time , no time to go out (lockdown) with my camera ... I hope i will get more free time but I don't think so ><

Didn't spot any Grosbeaks this weekend just ran into a bunch of squirrels.

How nice to see that some of us can go out!
Unfortunately here in Greece the situation after 2 weeks of lockdown is not yet improved. So we cannot go out. We can go for a walk in terms of personal exercise, by sending an sms but you cannot go that far. It is a bit cold also.
I spent the weekend with my uncle who was a former professional photographer and a excited hobbyist, having nice time, discussing about photography, gear and art as always. My poor aunt... I wonder how she can stand us, hearing us discussing all the time about the same topics...

Jack said:

I head about that sms thing, how it works ? In my opinion that’s a joke.

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When we want to go out we have to send an sms that is no charge to a 5 digit number.
In the sms we write out name and address and we choose one of 6 Numbers that each number is a reason that we go out.
For example, when we want to go for shopping we dial '2 name address', for exercise '6 name address' and then comes an answering sms with which we can go out. We need this number in case of police inspection us a justification of going out during lockdown.
This is a measure mostly to monitor population movement during lockdown. It is not that strict this time like in spring and people are less conservative.
In case you work you need a paper that is provided by the employer / company that also has time of going and returning from work, that justifies the purpose of movement in case of control. I've been going to and coming back from work the last 2-3 weeks and nobody has checked me until know.
These are measures mostly to adjust population movement in relation to lockdown.
We also have prohibition of movement from 21.00 to 5.00. But if you need something like let's say to go to a kiosk you can send an sms and move.