During the COVID-19 pandemic, I've been living it up in my house with a turntable and literally hundreds of vinyl records. Every breakfast, lunch and dinner there's always something playing. Sometimes there's even a fight about who gets to play what. So I fixed that problem and got my own record player. Not nearly as cool as the big one that my parents bought, but it plays records and that's all I cared about.

Record players have sort of lost their touch and until a year ago it was out of touch with my family until my mom bought a record player for my dad for Christmas and a rare Metallica record. My dad played that record through both sides probably 10 times. Within the next week, my dad and I had built record slots in our dining room and bought so many records. Ever since, my dad has been obsessed with records and I have been too. I've bought my own record player for my room and plenty of other records for myself. Records are always in heavy rotation and even more so during quarantine because we are all home. I took this photo while I had a Volbeat album on my parents much nicer turntable. One thing that still baffles me about record players is how sound is created through the stylus running through microscopic grooves in the record face. It's an incredibly old technology but it's still interesting today. I wanted to show that in my photo so I took an up close photo of the stylus on the record face. The record has some pretty severe reflections so I cranked down the exposure and was surprised at how effective it was so that's what I went with. There wouldn't be much to change to this other than maybe including the record sleeve of the album that was playing.