For Jeff Sinon's isolation project I am to capture at least one photo a day. But what if you are in a mood? What if you pick up the camera, drive into Princeton with your wife and "stuff starts happening"? You can't seem to stop clicking. You see images everywhere. The images aren't spectacular, but you are personally drawn to them. You don't know why you like the scene; you just know that you do. And you come home and you post-process with an Adobe Lightroom filter you create at the moment, and then your wife asks which one are you going to upload, and you say, "All of them!"
All except for the doors. Ok, not all, but a lot. Except for the doors. That's a separate post.
Just because. Because you like them, and then you realise there is a pattern unfolding. It dawns on you that subconsciously you've got a set of images that have something in common.
How'd that happen? It doesn't matter. But still, it feels like I should post just one. The strongest one. The one that feels just right. The rest? They make a collection for another post.
Shortly after the governor of New Jersey issued his executive order for shelter-in-place and closed all the public schools, someone created a community group for my township on Facebook. There were lots of ideas about how the community could pull together to help less-privileged members of the town get computers and internet access so that the school children could attend classes from home. Some were organising to create meals for the children who were dependent on school lunches. This is all good.
But there was also much-seeming self-congratulation.
But if our community was so caring and giving then why was it so hard to find toilet paper? What were the meat and chicken shelves empty?
The people in my township who hoarded toilet paper, meat, eggs, and chicken, who emptied the CVS of every bottle of Tylenol. Is that the real community? Or is community a facade?
So here I am, a person with Type 1 diabetes, who uses alcohol prep pads to clean my glucose test sites and infusion set sites, who normally had no issues sourcing these from Amazon.com or the local CVS, panicking on Monday after seeing "sold out" on all the brands sold on Amazon. Being very concerned when we found out that the local CVS was also sold out. Relieved and then panicked because we could order them on Walmart but only one box. I normally order two. But even now I am more privileged than many who struggled to find supplies even before COVID-19.
With Fuji X-T2 in hand, I documented some of the COVID-19 pandemic related signs on the shop windows. Some were closed to dining in but offered to take out options. Many had fully closed and could not or would not offer to take out or online ordering. The streets and shop windows had the feeling I get when I am in a town that has seen hard times. I expect that some of these shops will not open after the pandemic response has passed.
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