As of March 14th, everything in the United States has changed. Within just a few days the economy has ground to a halt and it's taken the majority of photo/video jobs with it.
Most of my friends in real life are photographers and I have literally thousands of Facebook friends in the industry as well. Everyone is saying the same thing; all of the jobs have been postponed or canceled and no new jobs are coming in. Once the virus is under control in a few weeks/months will everything simply go back to the way it was before or are we heading into the next big recession?
I'd like to know what you think. Below, I've come up with a few simple questions for you to answer.
In the comment section below, I'd like to hear your thoughts. Where do you live, what is the photo/video market doing in your area? Does anyone have any new work coming in? How long can you ride this out and when do you expect this to be over?
lawrence, you're right, but i don't think Marty has a real perception YET of all that's happening. That will change in 2 weeks though, when the numbers in the US sky rocket.
Yes, lots of countries are under testing. In some, their public reports are also downsized to prevent panic. This is much worse than you can imagine.
And for those thinking this is even comparable with the flu, i recommend you educate yourself about this subject. Start by watching this :
"the lockdown - one month in Wuhan"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU9FVqwO4TM
Maybe watching this, you get an idea of what's coming your way.
I am just starting my buisness as an amateur photographer. My first event was a Valentine's day booth to get my name out there. I have been approached by a few people but nothing serious as of yet.
All that said i am still working my day job as a manager of a restaurant and that is where i see the huge dip in sales. The owner of the company is worried about it being very bad. I came at him with plans for us to still work even if we have to shut down sales but thats only because i know of needed repair work in the store that cant be done when we are serving customers.
I also invest in stocks using Stashonvest.com so seeing the stock prices and how they are impacting me personally lets me see how serious this truly is. I do still think economy wise we will bounce back since the main issues now are plant closures in China and as they get back to production it will help stabilize other areas. Had 90% of production been US based like in the 40-70's it would be hurting us more.
All said though the issue if being hyped by media too much and the general public is panicking too early. Just a walk through Walmart makes it feel like someone launched nukes and we are waiting for them to land. Its more stress and less common sense out here in Kansas. And well all these events being canceled yet stores having record sales in goods tells you we are not avoiding mass contact.
I’m fortunate to be a property photographer in the UK and with the recent cut in interest rates in the uk to the lowest ever 0.25% it’s had a positive reaction to more homes coming onto the market, so currently I’m actually on par or over my usual quota for this time of the year.
However I’m not expecting to last as more people become infected, I’d expect less jobs as social distancing increases. I’ve defiantly seen a reduction in elderly owners moving as they probably are nervous about exposing themselves to the moving process and new contacts that may lead to contamination of the virus.
I always run my business with a 6-9mth finance back up, in case of any eventuality, like falling ill or breaking a leg etc. However I know many photographers who live month to month and will be in serious financial difficulties in the coming months.
A wedding photographer friend is already having clients say they are looking at postponing their wedding for 12mths as they don’t want elderly relatives exposed to possible carriers etc.
It’s definitely going to change the world over the next few months and in my opinion no country is focusing on protecting the vulnerable over 60’s with underlying heath conditions. For 95% of the population it will be a nasty flu. But what if the virus then changes and starts to kill under 60’s without any health issues. Why isn’t the WHO have all the top scientists working together on a vaccine and expedited testing to final release...
It will all be too little too late. I mean look at Trump, the Coronor Virus is nothing to worry about, now it’s suddenly a national emergency!!!
I live in silicon valley in California. For my day job, I work as a scientist/subject matter expert for a biotech company that uses real time PCR for virus detection. And by night, well since I'm here, I'm also a photographer. I had a photo shoot today for headshots for persons in the area, and in 2 weeks I am scheduled to have a fairly large/high paying gig taking head shots/commercial images for an A.I. company of about 30 people. I am expecting this gig to be cancelled indefinitely as my day job has been moved to a remote only job for the next few weeks.
In regards to Covid-19, the next month will be very interesting in regards to what detection/treatment looks like. 1, more people will of course be reported as carriers, and 2, early detection treatment is just around the corner. The issue with this virus specifically, is that covid-19 is a new virus that we were not expecting or screening for on a large scale.
As far as over reactions are concerned, there are compelling arguments either way. On 1 hand, you can argue that the mortality rate for people under 50 or 60 is extremely low, but that leaves a large portion of the population that can be affected.
And on the other hand, if the disease is able to be adopted by enough hosts, further mutations become an issue. The current defenses that we naturally have is that the virus is not heat resistant and doesn't survive that long on hard surfaces (~6 hours is the current best estimate, but further testing is still being done), so in theory, you move into summer with temperatures above 26C, and everyone goes home for the night and bam, the area will theoretically be sterilized by morning. But if (and take this with a grain of salt as we are talking about theories, but mutations occur in viruses frequently and rapidly) the virus adapts to be something closer to say, hepatitis with a 3 week shelf life, now you have an aerosolized virus that can't be managed. The target group of those over 50 will stay the same due the ACE II (angiotensin converting enzyme II) pathway it uses to affect the lungs/heart/kidneys, but the issue will be prevalent much longer and re-infection will also come into play.
I am also in the Silicon Valley, and I wish I could share your optimism. But, since you are at the biotech company, you might indeed have a more scientifically founded facts, compared to us, "ordinary" math and algorithm specialists. As you know, we have in the Valley a huge contingent of specialists from India and China, and many other countries.
Our business is not very impacted so far, and we can work from home. We make meetings per teleconference and I avoid public transport, restaurants. All this breakdown in business will have a serious fallout, when the epidemic will run its course.
The chairman of Robert Koch Institute predicts that the epidemic with such infection rate and mild to invisible symptoms in incubation period is not to be stopped in dense populated areas. It will run its course, 1 in 5 will develop severe symptoms and a few percent of these will die. Do your math. Here in the US this situation might be better than in Europe, due to distances between urban areas and... wide spread poverty in rural areas. People cannot travel and stay among themselves in close proximity. This circumstance might slow down the expansion of the epidemic.
I fly, I am a pilot, and I landed many times in rural areas. The level of dereliction is sometimes stunning, US is a country of contrasts. From super rich, flamboyant, to the "dollar store" customers living in trailers. I was for example pickup up from airport to hotel by veterans, some without teeth, one with broken glasses, kept by a scotch tape. Always friendly, nice, carrying the fate with certain level of stoic acceptance. The youtuber Matt Granger drove recently the route 66, and presented his images from the adventure. They all documented dereliction: wrecks of vehicles, falling apart barns and abandoned houses. This is how I see rural Midwest as well.
Here in Brooklyn, NY. I primarily photograph and film touring musicians, even booked my first west coast tour! And yeah, the virus has cancelled nearly every show in the New York area including that tour. The music world already doesn’t pay well and New York is slowly crushing me anyway. I’m scrambling for other work, trying to find remote video editing gigs, or anything really.
Blame the news. They live for ratings like this and they make a killing off fear mongering between commercials. Scaring the money out of people. Now get out there and photograph the empty toilet paper shelves.
"The News" is currently a mix of reporting on moronic behaviour of others but at the same time informing about how things are going in other regions and what measures help and do nothing. If you block out the news, people also miss out on really important facts.
How people react and behave is a lot more significant than "The News". Lots of bullshit fake news on social media also. Just saw an article of people in India believing that their traditional practice of consuming cow urine and dung can prevent and cure COVID-19.
I just installed a chrome app called good news that lets you remove words from the news feed. Added coronavirus and now apparently there is not much newsworthy out there. I don't care if one person got sick in Kansas. Reminds me of hurricane season when you see a reporter standing next to a puddle talking about how it's getting deeper because they had run out of fear inducing material. There is so much ratings targeted stuff going out that it's hard to get the true updated facts.
Scare everyone to buy up everything at stores and bam, now they have a new story about greedy paranoid people buying up everything. I don't want to see it.
It's that kind of reasoning that made the virus boom in Italy. A first world country, now working and threating victims as a third world country because they can't handle the load. I don't get the analogy with a hurricane. Hurricanes are not contagious.
You know, there is also an option to follow the (real) news and not panic nor go out and buy everything. Blocking everything seems like a panic reaction.
What is the news going to tell me? Wash my hands when it's an airborne virus? That someone I don't know in some place I'm not at, is sick? We will all eventually get sick from it. Questions should be on treatment, vaccine rather than scaring people into buying up hand cleaners and toilet paper. The news did that. All the water is being bought as if the virus drinks all our water. The news did that. Their fear mongering does more harm than good and yes, like a hurricane coming, they are treating the virus like it's a category 5 racing towards us to end us all. So go buy that food, water, empty gas stations and for god's sake, keep watching those news ads!
Let me tackle this clusterf*ck of a comment:
1/ Airborne? It's not airborne. It's a "droplet" virus. This means it can be transmitted by small respiratory droplets that become aerosolized when an infected person sneezes or coughs.
Healthy people who are near can inhale the infectious droplets, or the droplets can land on their eyes, nose and mouth. That's not airborne at all. It's not flying around in a cloud, infecting people randomly and "you can't do anything about it".
2/ "We will eventually all get sick." So that's it, just give up, let the virus spread itself and kill off 10% of the population? Mostly the weaker and elderly? You say it like it's a choice you make, like what kind of milk you buy. People are staying indoors and only going out when absolutely necessary in Europe. Why? Because the lives of their grandparents or other people's granddad or teenager daughter with astma is more important than going to McDonalds or drinking a beer.
3/"Questions should be on treatment, vaccine rather than scaring people into buying up hand cleaners and toilet paper."
Questions and topics should PRIMARILY be prevention and containment. And measures taken accordingly. That's the most important phase. If that faills, it's out of control. All hospitals in the world can't threat tens of millions of sick people all at the same time. That's not that hard to understand. And every infected person spreads the virus to around three people. Do the math for the coming days, weeks and months. The POINT of all the warnings and measures are to prevent that a large majority of people get sick in a very SHORT time. This will make every health care system crash in every country. Yes, almost everybody will get sick - the prognoses now is about 70-80%. But if you listen to what the people who actually know, have to say, the total infection rate can be spread. That's called "flatten the curve".
I'll give you one thing: nobody should be buying toiletpaper or water. That's moronic. I haven't said otherwise. This takes me to the next point:
4/ You obviously watch or read the wrong news sources, if that is what you are picking up. That's your own responsibility, don't blame the people actually informing the public - the ones housed at the reliable news sources. Doctors, virologists, independent news sources. It's not because the USA has to live with a misinforming polarized media landscape, that other countries don't have a reliable independent (public) broadcast or people speaking up and saying the truth. Without fear of get lynched because they might cause some stocks & shares to go down.
Thanks for making my point "wrong news sources." That's all anyone sees. You can continue your trolling now.
You clearly have no idea what trolling means. You're either 13 years old or 60+
Trolling - Joins photography site but doesn't post photography work. Hangs out in comments all day talking smack.
So like basically the majority of every photo website comment section? I don't feel to need to show my work on this site. But you failed to point out the "smack" with counter facts and just reverted to ad hominem comments, which makes you lose credibility instantly.
You know almost every country is going in lockdown, right? New York is taking the same precautions. So while I have been pointing this out from the start, reality is catching up. When are you going to admit reality?
Can't respond right now. Busy actually doing photography work and running my business. You should try it some time.
Again, ad hominem.
And to respond to your childlike remark about photography work. Really? You really missed the fact that this article and all comments are talking about photographers loosing work and income for weeks because of Covid19 and the complete lockdown of our countries. Really mature. You're not only blind for the reality and the consequences, but a fulltime asshole spitting in the face of every fellow photographer going through difficult times and burying family members in the proces.
Someone with a successful business doesn't act like this. This is screaming weakness and insecurity.
You're fine considering you don't do photography work. Let us working photographers talk. Bye now.
I've lost every job except one for the next six weeks (my income is 1/3 event and 2/3 commercial). That's tens of thousands of dollars in income. If this lasts longer than six weeks, I don't know what I'm going to do. Emails from businesses have stopped except to say a shoot has been cancelled.
I am seriously worried if this continues more than a couple of months.
All my new projects are postponed, not cancelled, at least not yet.
I have a lot of video editing and retouching that I'll be doing myself, instead of outsourcing. That will save me some money and keep me busy. But my editor and retoucher are out of income.
Luckily January and February were lucrative and I have savings. Though if I knew this was coming, I would have rented some gear rather than spend $2,000 recently.
As I said in another post, if you're just starting out or mid-tier, maybe it's time to move up to mid-tier or high-end jobs. Those clients are surely looking to save money, but still get work done.
Personally I don’t make a living from photography, as for me it is a hobby rather than an income or business, not that I would not love to be doing this.
I work as a financial planner for a large Australian Bank and earn my income from this. So income wide I am cornered, but I am worried what this illness will do for Australia and the world as a whole both from a health perspective and an economic one.
Trumps attempts to stimulate the use economy is laughable and our prime ministers attempts are even worse. But the good news is most of our workforce has mandated sick leave and a social welfare net to fall back on.
All of my Video jobs are getting cancelled, everyone that I had booked for headshot sessions over the next couple of weeks also have postpone until further notice. I live in Alberta Canada, since 2015 we have been suffering through the oil price crash and even higher price differentials, on Monday, a day before the government declared the cancellation of all events with more than 250 people, the oils price dropped to ~$30, which means than even more oil and gas related business are going to struggle.
At this point I’m considering moving out of Alberta, and even Canada, it’s not as if I’m going to get another engineering job.
My plan so far is to hold tight to the few savings I have (around a month of expenses) and keep brainstorming about what to do...maybe do some sort of bookkeeping since we are I. Tax season, I dunno, following this post to see if I come up with something
I own an event Phototography business and all gigs have been cancelled. Typically 50% of revenue is made in the spring and the rest in the fall and holiday season. So to date 50% of my business has been written off. Hoping that the fall and winter business will at least save the year. Funny thing was that about 6 weeks ago I was forecasting for one of our strongest revenue years.
The only reason growth has continued is the belief it would continue. Sooner or later it will end.
The quarantine and other disease control measures are a killer to every small, independent business, really. In my country the authorities ordered everything to be closed, apart from pharmacies, food stores and gas stations. Everything else if forbiden and they say the state of emergency gives them power to put you in jail even, if caught breaking the rules. And it's so vague, that everybody are scratching their heads. I mean, if you are a dentist, do you close or that's a medical service? 'Cause some dental problems are urgent as hell. But in terms of money - if you have a hair salon or a small cafe etc. you really need to have some money on the side. And I doubt many people do. It's not ordered yet that people can skip payments for electricity or their mortgage or anything. It's floating like an idea, but no concrete measures were taken. The situation is crazy. Basically, it's still developing and we do no know what is going to happen, but all institutions look like completely taken by surprise. Most people definitely are. I'm talking about Bulgaria, but majority of countries in the region are in the same situation.
Here in LA, all but one of my jobs have been cancelled, and that one remaining one may very well be depending on how things go next month. Many of my overseas clients are going through the same things I am going through and no more of their products are making their way over to me either, so I'm without products to shoot. Every event I have been booked for has been cancelled, all corporate headshots have been suspended, all demand for videos has stalled. All my work with auto dealerships have stalled as well, and they have no idea when it will likely pick up. I hope things pick up soon, but it's not looking great. Every single person i know in the industry (photo / video / event / entertainment) is soon without any work on the calendar for the rest of the year. Let's hope a lot of us are able to weather the storm, but it looks like it will be at least a few months before we'll have some sense of normalcy.
In Australia, all Overseas travellers will have to isolate themselves for 14 days. No matter where the visitor has come from. Under the AUS government response, small business with receive $25 000 in tax breaks, People on a pension will get $750 one off payment. These payment will go some way in getting the economy 'flowing'.
And event which has over 500 people attending will be cancelled.
The overseas experience, Italy & Singapore, have shown the importance of acting quickly and decisively. With the infection rate increasing exponentially, and the death rate hovering around 3 - 4%, this is far worse than the common cold or virus.
If you consider someone with a high risk - a chronic disease, crohns,- heart or one of chronic respiratory diseases, then the out break become more personal.
So yes it is serious.
I work as an entertainment photographer in NYC (anything celebrity related: portraits, TV sets, red carpets, concerts, award shows etc) - the whole industry shut down this week, and 100% of my jobs got cancelled for March and April. Of course things can change if the peak of the infection will be behind us before then... but most likely I am not going to work at all until at least mid-end of April if I have to guess. All TV shows got cancelled until further notice, no Broadway shows, no concerts, no radio interviews no nothing. Every single place I work with shut down or cancelled.
Im trying to set impromptu celebrity portraits for celebs who are bored at home right now... but I doubt anything will happen.
Im not going to say here how much im going to lose, but it's going to be painful. Im good savings-wise and will be ok, but this is def going to be a major blow for the year. Especially when tax season is upon us + im supposed to move to a new apartment with much higher rent in few weeks.
Unfortunately here freelancers cant apply for unemployment, and many people I know are going to suffer badly.
I think even once things start going back to normal, things will still be fairly slow here for a while. A lot of the companies that usually hire me are losing millions/billions right now, and im sure they will have to cut down on events/productions.
While im home for a month or two, im going to try selling prints maybe. If that doesnt work, im going to offer companies an ad spaces on my body and tattoo their logo for $20,000 each :)
in south africa we have entered our 3rd recession since 2000, we entered this before the virus broke out, now with the virus adding on to that well money she is going the same way as the dodo
as for shoots , I have 1 wedding shoot for the year left, and well that is it
I am however a bit more lucky compared to others as I still have a day job as well which makes me around 800 US a month, savings pffff no savings to speak of, prices and cost of living have been going up on our side for a while, with this outbreak and many companies not being able to conduct business this will impact our cost of living even more hell I was using photography to to make extra income so I could at least live a little
I hope anyone and everyone effected by this will come out the other side safe
Things are pretty bad over here in the UK. I take London travellers around landmarks and take their vacation pictures. Almost all of my bookings have cancelled due to their flights getting cancelled, or fears of going to public spaces. The only good thing is that its easier to get amazing pictures as there is very few people at any of the major landmarks.
I think this is very serious for our community as much of our work is seen as non-essential. Guess a new video series on how we are about to communicate business value to prospects would be incredibly useful to help us bounce back.
At this stage i'm closing shop. All my events for march and april are cancelled, with a dead loss of 25000 usd, and as i'm a sport event and corporate event photographer, and studio photographer i'm down to zero .
Figuring out solutions, but working on different options, let's see what it leads.
It will be interesting to do the same one in a month...
No real change -- work remotely in Alaska for the publishing industry, college market. Video for course material -- although we've already been nuked between jobs going to India and tuition crowding out textbook/curriculum $$. Did see a good video on this just now from London Real... seemed to make sense.
Stay safe everyone -- don't burn through your FU money too quickly. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdaIudGpDFI
Please note, and Fstoppers should hopefully let people know this. People really should try to keep track of the business lost, especially things like cancellations etc. There will inevitably be some sort of economic relief, at the bare minimum tax credits or something. If you keep as best records you can you will be more able to prove how much money you lost, including money you could have potentially made based on past trends.
We've had to postpone one workshop, but both airline, car rental and the hotel had no problem postponing it to the autumn and the rest of my workshops are also in the autumn. However, I do have one workshop in northern Italy at the end of August and since that is the epicentre of the virus here in Europe that one I am uncertain about.
This year I'll likely make most of my income from digital products and so far I have seen a dip on the 13th of march, but it is impossible to say if it was just a hickup or it will be the trend.
About the virus? I'm not worried. I've taken a few extra precautions. Washing a lot more regularly, carrying sanitizer with me for when there isn't a place to wash. Things like that. I'm young and healthy and if I contract it, being in self isolation for 2 weeks isn't the worst thing.
The impending recession is definitely what scares me. But one thing I also have lurking around is, how much work is going to come out of this as well? Especially commercial work. How many businesses will want to rebrand from this. Or even just showcase their stuff to push their product? Is now the time to really jump on that? That's my biggest thoughts right now.
Photography is a side hustle, Im in the supply chain industry as main job, it's an essential job no matter what. Our regulations have all been dropped by the US Gov allowing us work non stop getting needed supplies to the world. I do believe we will have a "lag" in regaining our normal economy which in my opinion was having big issues already. I normally just hire models to shoot but will not even consider booking anyone right now due to all the unknowns. Ive seen most of the traveling models giving up and removing their travel notices everywhere.
I believe photography and non essential jobs will not be seen in the same way after this event, notice they are the first things gone, this is a wake up call to many. Lots of people were living in a fantasy, reality now has the biggest following. I have a paid member site and it has been very slow in new customers for a few days thus far, I am not expecting this to change during this event however long it lasts. Just like restaurants you either close or you change your service.
I am also wondering if you guys running this site listen to Peter S. since you are his neighbor in PR? If there was ever a time to enact a "universal basic income" it's right now, worldwide immediately. Not conditional stimuluses, everyone is affected.
USA needs to just pull a France and lock it all down right now to get this thing figured out quicker.
I would argue that a crisis/emergency is the last time you want to be pushing through sweeping changes to our entire countries government and economic model, by politicians who are the most corrupt in the history of our nation. But sure why not. Lets give everyone free everything! Lets also mandate that all carbon emissions be lowered to zero immediately, and that we launch an ark of humans to Pluto by the end of the year. While we are panicking, we can also vote away the first 10 amendments, we dont need them anymore either.
Hello from Greece, the situation here is tough. We have in total 228 covid-19 positive and 4 deaths. The country is in total shut down, only super markets are aloud to open. The government is hiring about 2000 medical stuff and buys inventory for the hospitals. If you combine the non cash flaw of the average greek right now and some other factors we are at the dawn of a new financial crisis. The other factors are: 1) The borders, were thousands of immigrants want to pass to the EU, 2) Things arent going well with the Turkish government, that means that we are close to a war like episode in the near future, 3) The future of the virus is foggy and nobody knows how long will take to beat the virus. So if we combine all these plus the fact that Greece's main money maker is tourism, we can say with certainty that tomorrow will not be brighter than today.
I'm from Spain. We have the most incompetent government. We had the example of Italy and did NOTHING, not even Airport controls... Now we are overtaking South Korea.
I'm 24, I just payed my 15.000€ loan for all my camera gear on December. Now I have no savings, and almost no jobs expected because of the incoming crisis...
Thankfully, I live with my mom and I don't have to pay for rent or food, but all my plans have gone to shit...
I spent the last 6 months planing how to get a job on car commercial photography. I designed and sent a printed Portfolio CV (with no luck) and I've just finished the Video CV that I'll send to no one as everything has stop.
What agency is going to hire me as junior, if the economy has gone to shit and now I have to compete with the old guys who have all the contacts I don't?
I wanted to buy your Monte's course so I can prepare for the future, but now that means 1/3 of all my money... Everything is wrong 😂
Thank God I'm not in debt... Best luck to all of you!
Reading the comments here, lots of people in the USA are completely underestimating this. Ignoring the crisis in Italy and the rest of Europe. Or not following the news, of course.
This will globally cause exponentially more damage.
Sorry to hear that, Gonzalo! Wish you the best of luck and let's hope this storm will be over asap!
Thanks a lot Mads, and thanks Fstoppers for the 30% discount on all courses!
It's a great question and an interesting situation we're all in. Personally, I'm 2-3 years into starting my business and have had some serious health problems lately which has put me off work for a few months. This situation certainly doesn't help me to put it lightly. Watching your video this morning served me as a big wake up call to change profession (for now) in order to mitigate further problems.
Hard times here in Italy. We have to stay home. everything is shut down. only things that works are supermarkets and pharmcies. I am really worried about my working future ... I am a wedding photographer for 70% of my professional activity. I believe I will lose thousands of Euros this year. the only thing I can do is take care of my health and that of my loved ones by staying at home. Fortunately, our national health system is holding up, but the deaths continue to increase and hospital beds are running out. stay safe.
I am in France, 90% my booking for the next 2 months has been postponed and pretty sure that the 10% left will be postponed too within days.
All my shoots are cancelled/moved to another date still to be confirmed.
So yeah it's gonna get pretty rough and I'm seriously considering focusing on releasing a series of prints/small coffee book :))
I know this post is more intended for “pros”, but as a hobbyist, I’m actually benefiting from the closer of my company. I’m going into my third week of partial paid leave, and I’ve been using the extra free time to bond with my daughter and focus on building the “business” side of my photography. In an average month, I only get out about twice to shoot and only have about 45 minutes a day to edit and do “business” stuff. Since this whole thing shut down Japan, I’ve been out to shoot twice this week and have spent a few hours a day editing and marketing, which has already lead to a sale. To top it off, places that are usually busy are empty, and thus are easier to shoot. I’ve already planned two more shots for the end of this month in locations usually swimming with tourists, but this year they will be much more open. I do hope things go back to normal soon, as I’m worried about my company’s financials, but I’m making the most of being able to dedicate more than a few hours a month to photography. I’ve been able to get months worth of work done in just a week.
I hope all the pros can get back to work soon, but I also hear a lot of them talking about how little time they have to shoot for themselves. I hope y’all can find some time to do something for yourself, in the meantime.