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During the winter of 2020, when I made this photograph, Covid was running roughshod throughout the world. It was a period of time when people seemed to vanish from the face of the earth. Places normally filled with people suddenly became deserted. Now, in the winter of 2022, I still wonder if people will fill public places again like they did before the Covid pandemic. Or will many of them remain holed up and isolated? Only time will tell.
Midtown
Carmel, IN
2020
© James Rice, All Rights Reserved
I'm rather proud of the Aussie response to Covid-19. Even so, I've spent too long in isolation as this little ditty sprang into my head, to the tune of Australia's national anthem, 'Advance Australia Fair': www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQyiZNZaj00
"Australians all let us rejoice
For we are Covid free,
We've golden soil & free health for toil
Our home 'aint dirt by "C";
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
Of diseases we are rare,
On pandemic's stage, let every page
Advance Australia Fair,
In healthy strains then let us sing
Advance Australia Fair."
A transporter was a fictional teleportation machine used in the Star Trek universe. Transporters convert a person or object into an energy pattern then "beam" it to a target location, where it was reconverted into matter ("rematerialization").
This scene had that same rematerialization feel. It was shot through the glass of the old Hardware Grill Restaurant window. A homeless man was having a coffee next to a heat vent in the sunrise at the Convention Centre. Everything was wavering, richly lit and soft. The Edmonton Convention Centre is housing the homeless in the pandemic. It's a convention of sadness.
In the quiet corner of fast food restaurant you enjoy the delicious during this pandemic.
Have a good day and delicious!
Fuji X-T1
Fuji XF 35mm F2
Una foto testimonial de la pandemia en un barrio cualquiera de Madrid.
A testimonial photo of the pandemic in any neighborhood in Madrid.
We have all endured a historic event over the past year-and-a-half. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to infect and kill. We need now to vaccinate the world, a Herculean task but an investment for humanity. All of us. If you have not been vaccinated yet, do so. And we need to press for faster vaccination of countries less fortunate than the USA. Just do it.
Along North Lake Avenue in Altadena, California
For at least two years during the Coronavirus pandemic San Francisco closed off the upper Great Highway a north - south thoroughfare to vehicle traffic.
A lot of people, and particularly families who lived in the Sunset District, San Francisco's westernmost neighborhood, took advantage of the closure by walking the along the Great Highway. In addition, people who worked from home, and their children who didn't go to school took advantage of the closures.
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Credence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMowTSsta0w&ab_channel=genaro...
Two top virologists successfully carried out a nuclear bomb test for the first time in the specially built test centre in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. After the atomic bomb explosion, no viruses were detectable within a radius of 10 kilometres. Thus, the widespread use of atomic bombs, in addition to vaccination, represents another important building block in pandemic control. Finally, an end to the pandemic is in sight. However, this measure only has a positive effect on those who have been vaccinated. The unvaccinated will still all die of covid, by the end of March at the latest. As you can see in the picture, the new test centre was slightly damaged by the atomic bomb explosion. But one has to make sacrifices for science sometimes.
One single exposure, no edit.
Models: Ralf Koplin & Hans Rouflair
Camer: Erik
Lights: me
"The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, held on 25 November, marks the start of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, ending on 10 December, Human Rights Day. While lockdown measures aim to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, reports have shown an alarming increase in the pandemic of violence against women during this time. In May 2020, an article in the British Medical Journal1 stated that “the United Nations Population Fund has warned that continuing lockdowns for six months could result in an extra 31 million cases of gender-based violence globally”." (www.2020yearofthenurse.org/story/international-day-for-th...)
"The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134). The premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden." (Wikipedia)
I'll be honest: until this year I hadn't heard of this day. Although it's so important to be aware of it.
It's my understanding that all the calories have been removed. That's why there's a hole in the center. 😉🍩
Happy Slider Sunday!
What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.
And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another’s hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.
Promise this world your love–
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall live.
–Lynn Ungar 3/11/20
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Divine%20Corruption/218/54/26
Pandemic Places -- Where People Used to Be
The "CB" was one of my first hangouts at my first job out of college as an engineer. There were a lot of fun times and pranks generated from the corner booth. Now, nearly a year into the pandemic, it is far from the crowded, fun-loving place that I remember. But the ghosts of the crazy group of engineers from SIECO must surely be hiding in the nooks and crannies of this bar.
The Columbus Bar
Columbus, IN
2021
© James Rice, All Rights Reserved
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tirage lith /virage selenium
ilford delta 100/rodinal 1/50
Agrandisseur focomat IC
Fallout drops from the night sky in a barren land as terrorized women scream in horror as they succumb to a fatal illness
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Flickr Journal March 24th, 2020
COVID-19 is messing up our lives. Real Life seems to be getting stranger and stranger with each passing day. Kwai and I just found out we are probably losing our RL jobs before the end of this week. People around us seem like they're caught up in some surreal dream of invisible disease and economic ruin. You almost want to say it's not that big a deal and then, bang, it suddenly is a big deal. People are dying. So we just roll with the punches, remain cautious and take life one day at a time.