I'm an experienced photographer. Current Community Awareness Series photographer. in Jersey City, New Jersey. We put on free cultural events like Kwanzaa celebrations with African dancing and drumming, jazz, festivals and plays. Photography is my love and passion. I love shooting events, landscapes, often handheld, flowers, portraits, parties, sweet 16s, weddings and other events. One of my passions is shooting cloudy sunsets. They're especially colorful, vibrant and pretty because the clouds carry the setting sun's colors throughout the sky. It's especially difficult to stay busy, involved, engaged and motivated during this pandemic shutdown because the majority of my work involves events with crowds of people and now there are no events with the crowds I'm accustomed to. I went from editing up to a thousand photos or more per event over a few days to editing 25 or 30 per day. It's a big change but it's the new normal. Stay safe, be healthy. When things are close to normal what we did with our cameras will be a record of how we handled severe adversity and kept art alive. Richard Ryals