Carrie 1 found a new way to practice photography.
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I was a world traveler, and I loved to spend my money traveling all over the world. And that was really important to me. I’ll never do that again. But I still love photography. And what I loved about traveling was photography. I’ve taken up what they call car photography. It is really silly, but often, I’ll drive somewhere, and I’ll take pictures out of my car window. I can’t really do anything besides that. I can’t get out of my car. But in autumn, I drove to a beautiful cemetery. And I just parked my car and took pictures of the autumn leaves, and it made me so happy. And I think you just – I think being ill really helps you appreciate the small things that you, I never really did before.
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