Community Park North sits inside the much larger Billie Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve. The park is just a ten-minute car ride from my home. I had the day off on Monday to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day. I had planned to ride my Lectric XPremium to the park via Mount Lucas Road, but I had a problem with the speed sensor. By the time I had resolved the issue, it was much later in the day, and I had lost my enthusiasm for making the trip.

Monday 10 October 2022 · FujiFilm X-T3 · XF27mmF2.8 R WR
When she came home from work, Bhavna heard the disappointment in my voice. She encouraged me to make the drive and walk with her. I was happy that she did. We
I took my Fuji X-T3, XF27mmF2.8, Urth ND64 neutral density filter, and the too-heavy Manfrotto tripod. I also loaded a 24-exposure roll of Kodak Vision3 50D 35mm film into my Minolta XD-11 with the MD Rokkor-X 50mm f/1.7 lens. You won’t see the Kodak Vision3 50D images for at least a month. I’m not even sure I’ll get good results. The low ISO and low light between the tree meant I was shooting from the tripod.
We made our way through Community Park North, loosely following one of the trail paths toward Palmer Lake, a manufactured lake within the nature preserve. The tripod and the neutral density filter were handy for making long-exposure photographs on the lake.

Monday 10 October 2022 · FujiFilm X-T3 · XF27mmF2.8 R WR

Monday 10 October 2022 · FujiFilm X-T3 · XF27mmF2.8 R WR
We continued to follow the trail through the trees, around the lake to the area below the Mountain Lakes House.

Monday 10 October 2022 · FujiFilm X-T3 · XF27mmF2.8 R WR
I explained to Bhavna that until we started the walk, I had felt that I had wasted my day. I was also upset that my attempts to leave my current gig, which is slowly burning me out, to find a new remote work opportunity were not fruitful. There are a lot of job opportunities available, but most are onsite in Manhattan, Jersey City or Philadelphia. I don’t want to waste precious good weather days sitting on a train to get to an office with no windows and nothing except noise.

Monday 10 October 2022 · FujiFilm X-T3 · XF27mmF2.8 R WR
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