In these days because of the Covid pandemic and the restrictions in movement you may find yourself unable, or unwilling, to venture out and take new images. Now is a good time to gather your previous years of images and look for images that you may not have worked on before or need to be redone.
Too this end I have rediscoved images that I had forgotten about or just wanted to have another go at processing them differently. I have many 100’s of thousands of images that I feel deserved to be looked over again and now have the time to do it because of Covid.
When I scour my images I try to find images that I may have overlooked in my initial high grading and use them as a basis for tracking other images down. I have about 7TB of images stored and there are many that have never been really looked at (or printed).
The Covid 19 pandemic has almost brought the world to a standstill. For many people in the world they are suffering lockdowns and economic deprivation. Business is disappearing as people cannot see the end to the pandemic.
Lots of Building work has been reduced or stopped
Cambodia is also suffering, but due to the quick and timely reaction of the Cambodia government, has suffered few Covid infections. The economy is suffering and the people who relie on that economy (textiles, shoe making and tourism) are suffering also.
Tourist numbers to see the wonders of Angkor I am told have dropped and many Hotels in Siem Reap have ceased trading for the moment
Once thriving businesses have closed, some believe permanently, hotels with no customers are left deserted, 70+% of the factory workers find themselves unemployed with no social systems to fall back on, many have returned, I am told, to their old homes in the provinces.
Cambodia has had a total of 272 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
The Cambodian Ministry of Education has agreed to a three-phase plan for reopening educational institutions in the 2020-2021 academic year to include 20 schools approved to reopen in August 2020.
Grocery stores, restaurants, and other services remain generally available. The Cambodian government has restricted the operation of certain businesses, such as cinemas, karaoke, and entertainment clubs (bars, discos, beer gardens).
Large meetings or gatherings, such as parties or religious gatherings, are banned until September 2020.
People can still travel to and from Cambodia but must adhere to the restrictions laid down by the Cambodian government.
We must wait and see how things will develop over time but I fear recovery will be slow and difficult as Cambodia is affected by the International situation re Covid 19.
Every year since 2013/14 I have be invited to spend the week with the forPeace house building team on there quest to finish houses donated to poor families in the Cambodia countryside. Covid 19 interupted the seasonal job as 2020 had o be cancelled. Hopefully 2021 will happen.
a world without pictures is like coffee without cream and sugar, bitter 