I'm back - I missed you all - I aged 10years in a single month 1 year ago

Five vaccines done ... Covid Gen4 got me by the end of June 2024. 3 days coma.
Damaged heavily, but still battling with my '80 body.
Vaccines saved me from worse damages.
But 8 months are still left before ID ageing 70.

_ I Missed this forum ____

Now I'm shooting two bodies each with a different zoom.
No more changing lenses for a different range while shooting.
That was an improvement, I was dreaming of from Film's era.

Zf + Z30 > ranges 15-30mmE; 20-200mmE; 70-450mmE: 180-1260mmE
10-20DX; [18-140zDX + 24-200Z]; 70-300E; 180-600Z; [ zTC1.4 + KTC1.4]

Some Trees on the Moon

Nikon Z30 70-300E @450mmE; 1/250; f/9; ISO6400 - Handheld

Winter is Coming

Nikon Z30 KTC1.4 70-300E @630mmE; 1/640; f/8; ISO720 - Handheld

Monviso and the Crows, over a foggy plain

Nikon Z30 18-40Z @210mmE; 1/160; f/13; ISO400 - Handheld

Splendid Autumn

Nikon Zf 24-200Z @45mmE; 1/500; f/14; ISO450 - Handheld

Splendid Winter

Nikon Zf 24-200Z @24mmE; 1/1000; f/13; ISO500 - Handheld

Briançon la vielle

Nikon Zf 24-200Z @24mmE; 1/250; f/8; ISO360 - Handheld

Welcome back. May I make a suggestion?
Your Covid experience is terrifying. Very glad to hear you are back. The Covid details are concerning to me because where I'm working at the moment has a covid outbreak.
The suggestion. It's difficult to do your photos justice when you make a post with so many shots. I think you will get better discussion by posting one at a time to whatever thread looks to be relevant to the subject. Thinking about an image takes time. You will also get more focused discussion of an image and a broader range of thoughts if just one shot is up for discussion at a time.
I have to go now. I'll talk about the images later today.

Beautiful shots! Like them a lot.

I'm sorry to hear about your strugges and really hope your health improves.

I've been away from this forum as well for a while and also missed parts of it!

Welcome back, Alain.

I took those images to be a collection which represents a return to photography following disability due to Covid - rather than looking for discussion on each image separately.

Are posts with more than one shot actually frowned upon by Admin. on this site? - or is the suggestion just based on personal opinion?

I certainly don't speak for the admin. It's a personal opinion. When shots are posted, or I post shots, I'm interested in the opinions. It isn't any sort of question of right or wrong. We all bring different responses that grow from our unique experiences in all the arts. Looking at how different images result in different responses and then looking at how the image has done this, is a large part of the pleasure I get from images.
The point I'm making is that I'd rather get a discussion, a series of considered responses and perhaps some backwards and forwarding, than have some brief "wow that's good kind of responses. It's what I like about our The Photo site. The internet is full of photo sites with comments like that. On The Photo, there are a number of contributors who look closer. It's what makes us worth belonging to.
It's time consuming. That kind of response takes some thought and work. Dealing adequately with a whole batch of shots takes up too much time and doesn't do justice to the images.
It's why I like the Weekly Thread format. It encourages an exchange of views around each image in a manageable way. If it was technically possible to have threaded rather than flat forum view on the site, the exchanges would be better and more inclusive of a range of views. Flat view encourages responses back and forth between the OP and individual posters.
Back to where we started. It's my response to the OP. I'd rather see some deeper conversation on a single image and then some more discussion on another image next week than a random responses to a number of images. Alain may not see it in the same way. Fair enough.

Welcome back Alain!
Glad you survived.
These shots are great !
Looking forward to more:-)

Thanks!!

Well, six different pics just to show I'm still able to shoot "after", and that was not so discounted 🤷

Everybody can shoot. Even a Cellphone is a great camera body.
But to keep your way to generate images is not easy, as that can be lost easily.

What reconforted me was the ability to shoot again my "telling" images.

The first after the Covid was: "Winter is coming".
It took me 30 minutes, 170-220 shots under rain, but when at PC [fast scrolling all of them in shooting order] I came to it ... it was a sudden emotion: "I'm still able to shoot my way ahead". I was already ready to sell all my gear.

Not one of my best pics, but important to me!!!

( I bought an X14T PRO with Leica lenses as my third body )

Thanks, happy I am you liked them !!!

Yes, exact!
You saw them correctly !!!

Thanks

Well, you got exactly the point: "survived" !!!

Thanks for the compliment, let to be sure....
...more are coming 😇

__ Thanks everybody for the welcome back ! __

Here in the US, government officials are working hard to make sure no one else goes into a coma because of a vaccine! 😜

Quite a bit better than never having an ID showing an age of 70!

Then you shouldn't have gotten Covid and lapsed into a coma! I mean, sheesh! 😁

I do the same! Either that, or a zoom on one body and a prime on the other, or two primes on two bodies, depending on what I'm looking to shoot.

Wonderful photos, but this one stands out for me:

Glad everything is OK! Too bad you'll never taste food again. 😉

welcome back mate. nice images.

Welcome home and glad you're mending. I understand your plight, as I live every day with limitations from a heart condition caused by covid.

Those are really nice images you've shared, from a technical as well as artistic perspective. I look forward to your ongoing offerings. Keep up the good fight!

Glad you're back and still taking nice photos😎