Photographing São Paulo, and Brazil, under normal conditions brings challenges that any photographer has to face. During the COVID-19 quarantine most of those challenges are irrelevant and one can only dream of going to document all the culture and color of Brazil, and all those far off wild places, as well as those closer to home, but going anywhere with the virus lurking was not an option for my family. Therefore, I started to look at the massive sprawling city all around me, and realized that there was much to be seen and photographed from the vantage point of our own apartment. The same scenes change every day with the weather and the lighting, trees bloom, buildings get painted, helicopters and vultures soar by, life goes on, slowly. For many of these images I used an old Nikon mirror-refractive 500mm lens that is not well known for its sharpness, but it provides an experience shooting with film that is unlike most modern day shooting experiences.