If I only had more time...

To tell the truth, I believe if I had more time I would just waste it.
Sometime I wish I had all day to dedicate to my photography, but my daily work in an assembly line is useful, both to pay the bills, but also to help me focus on my hobby in my spare time.
On Saturday I had some time for me in the afternoon, I prepared the gear for the shooting on the 22nd with a new model, but I still feel having lost a lot of time doing nothing in particular.
This demonstrates that when I do have some spare time, I tend to waste it, whilst when I'm pressed, I focus more on the tasks at hand.

Fortunately I have been doing this thing for a long time, and I have plenty of photos in the Archives to choose from, so today I went back to August 2020, in Brescia, to pick 3 pictures of Jiulia.
The photo for Patreon and the photo for regular social media are both shot with an old and battered lens, the Nikon 105mm f1.8 AI-s.
This lens is in such bad shape, with the focusing ring stuck and the lenses covered in what appears to be limescale traces left by condensation.
In these sequence I tried to push the lens beyond its possibilities by provoking a severe backlight, but the lens behaved incredibly well for the condition it is in.
Since then I have found another copy of this lens, one in very good conditions, and I used it only a couple of times, one with a 7 month old daughter of my nephew, and one with Barbora during our first shooting.
I will have to use this lens more in the future... as well as all others.
I was offered some Leica R lenses lately, in perfect conditions, but I'm resisting to open a whole new can of worms because I have too many lenses already, and very good lenses at that, and I need to use the ones I have before buying new ones I don't need.
Possibly concentrating only on few special and exotic pieces of glass I can't live without, either because of the specific focal length or the effects they can produce.

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