Photo Story — Quarantine with a Camera

This following series of photographs were taken while inside the house during quarantine. It’s been 21 days since the government of Puerto Rico implemented quarantine and as much as I enjoy staying at home, I’m starting to miss going outside. As an landscape photographer, I spend quality time alone or with my wife in nature so solitary and isolation is nothing new to me but I’m starting to miss the great outdoors. Yet everyone must do their part in staying home, preventing the spread of the virus no matter how much you miss it until is safe to do so. In the meantime, I’ll be capturing the essence of my home.

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One of the exercises given by a photography professor was to photograph your cats from their point of view, and here I captured my cat, Anduin, sitting on the kitchen mat (his favorite spot) while I’m behind his scratch post that they drag under the sofa.

After almost two weeks, I had to prepare myself to go to the supermarket. This fanny pack is where I keep all my essential items I need to be out in public. I carry one mask and a spare mask, hand sanitizer, thieves oil (ratero in Spanish), shopping list and my trusty kindle e-reader. Also you can see my second cat, Athena underneath of the glass table.

Not even a week of the quarantine, and the guy on the left was under the influences causing mayhem on the main avenue. Police are trying to push him off the street but he kept refusing to move. Gladly, after almost four hours, he voluntarily hopped on the ambulance.

My wife is a registered nurse of the emergency department in one of the mayor hospitals in town. Here she is getting ready around five in the morning. The laundry room and bathroom have become her disinfecting area, with the plastic covered table being the designated place of wiping a cleaning all her equipment.

While trying to disinfect one of the reusable face mask, with a steamer, we fell asleep and almost burned the house. Thankfully, nothing major occurred but that shows you that coronavirus is only one of the hazards that can occur in our daily lives.

Every morning I tend the very small garden I have on the entrance of my apartment. Living in an apartment that is in the second floor means that you will have no yard and cannot have a complete garden. Currently I have tomatoes, and some herbs like mint, rosemary, culantro, and oregano.

Does this happen to every cat owner? Does your cat harass you while you take a shower? because mine does, and is always pushing and playing with the water droplet that race down the shower curtain.