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Title: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Chris Kern on April 08, 2020, 01:39:37 pm: This thread is for photographs documenting the effects in various geographical locations of government restrictions that are intended to reduce the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus. I suggest that each image be labeled with the location where it was made, ideally including a geotag.
Title: USA, Washington, D.C., March 18, 2020
Post by: Chris Kern on April 08, 2020, 01:40:56 pm: USA, Washington, D.C., March 18, 2020, 1355 EDST, Intersection of Wisconsin and Western Avenues, N.W. (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9598924,-77.0865649,18.14z?hl=en)
Title: USA, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2020
Post by: Chris Kern on April 08, 2020, 01:41:59 pm: USA, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2020, 1606 EDST, National Mall Looking West (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8901938,-77.0167212,16z?hl=en).
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 08, 2020, 01:58:33 pm: Reposting from another thread:

Belgrade, Serbia, April 7, 2020 - a side street of the main pedestrian area:

On my way to pick up food today, I took this one. The sign reads "Stay at Home." The day was lovely, sunny, warm, trees are getting first leaves, and the sun was lighting them from behind. I noticed the trees the other day, but they were in the shade. So I planned today's shoot using Photographer's Ephemeris to tell me exactly at what time today the sun will illuminate this street. 3:02pm, it turns out.

Not a great art, but two things struck me as unusual: the sign, and the fact that the street was practically empty, although in different times, with a weather like this and the arrival of spring, it would be as busy as Times Square.
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 08, 2020, 02:00:55 pm: Belgrade, Serbia, April 8, 2020 - the main pedestrian area:

Lovely spring day, 20C/68F, the time of the year and weather that would have this main pedestrian area of Belgrade packed with people.
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 08, 2020, 02:03:18 pm: Belgrade, Serbia, March/April 2020 - police and military patrols on the streets, after a Martial Law was announced (a news media image):
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: armand on April 08, 2020, 04:51:03 pm: Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 08, 2020, 02:03:18 pm
.... (a news media image):

And here I thought you decided to be a rebel
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 13, 2020, 12:04:46 pm: Since no one else wants to play, I'll continue:

Belgrade, Serbia, April 10, 2020 - The Republic Square, the very center of the city, National Museum on the left, National Theater on the right, main pedestrian area a few steps to my left:
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: rabanito on April 14, 2020, 05:57:00 pm: Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 08, 2020, 02:03:18 pm
Belgrade, Serbia, March/April 2020 - police and military patrols on the streets, after a Martial Law was announced (a news media image):

How come the military are thoroughly masked and the policemen unconcealed?
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 15, 2020, 05:56:31 am: Quote from: rabanito on April 14, 2020, 05:57:00 pm
How come the military are thoroughly masked and the policemen unconcealed?

Good question. I do not know. Personal choice? But more likely this: police sleeps at home, alone or in the family. The army sleeps in barracks, 20-60 people in one room, with bunk beds. Potential for infection spreading is much greater.

As a matter of fact, it has been reported that dozens of soldiers got infected while securing the border, in the first wave of people returning from abroad.
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 15, 2020, 05:59:04 am: You know the things are screwed up when parks are becoming scenes of crime. Totalitarian madness.

Belgrade, April 14th:

P.S. Next weekend, for the Orthodox Easter, we will be under an 84-hour house arrest.
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Chris Kern on April 15, 2020, 09:36:10 am: Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 15, 2020, 05:59:04 am
Next weekend, for the Orthodox Easter, we will be under an 84-hour house arrest.

No leaving home even just to take a walk? What's the stated rationale for that edict?
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 15, 2020, 10:59:28 am: Quote from: Chris Kern on April 15, 2020, 09:36:10 am
No leaving home even just to take a walk? What's the stated rationale for that edict?

If I had a dog, I would have 20 minutes within 200 meter (yards) radius from my building. Otherwise, no. Rationale!? What rationale one can expect from an ex-socialist government, advised by the Chinese? It is totalitarianism in action.

Older than 65 are allowed to go shopping between 4am and 7am. No, I am not kidding... in the morning. And for that there are long lines.

Oh, i forgot... older than 65 are not allowed out the whole week (except for shopping above), not just over the weekend.

Having said that, I just returned from an hour and a half walk (I am 63, so my curfew starts at 5pm every week day) with a friend, who is just a few weeks into his 65 (thus risking a fine between 500 and 1500 euros), and I saw no police or military patrols. Truth to be told, in the two weeks since I've been going out for half an hour to get food, I have not seen but a single policeman. And that one was just chatting with a street vendor, not actively monitoring the passerby.
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Craig Lamson on April 15, 2020, 01:23:08 pm: Not much action in my neighborhood, other than a bit of snow today.
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 15, 2020, 01:25:02 pm: Quote from: Craig Lamson on April 15, 2020, 01:23:08 pm
Not much action in my neighborhood, other than a bit of snow today.

A drone shot?
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Craig Lamson on April 15, 2020, 01:26:40 pm: Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 15, 2020, 01:25:02 pm
A drone shot?

Na, I've got REALLY long arms :)
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Peter McLennan on April 18, 2020, 11:43:39 pm: Quote from: Craig Lamson on April 15, 2020, 01:23:08 pm
Not much action in my neighborhood, other than a bit of snow today.

Very nice.

Stupid parking, though.
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on April 21, 2020, 06:19:24 pm: Quote from: Craig Lamson on April 15, 2020, 01:23:08 pm
Not much action in my neighborhood, other than a bit of snow today.
Since you're showing a single house, that lack of action can be achieved anyday no matter if COVD-19 is out there or not, as long as the family living in the place remains indoor :p
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 21, 2020, 06:43:03 pm: Quote from: Guillermo Luijk on April 21, 2020, 06:19:24 pm
Since you're showing a single house...

His drone has REALLY short arms ;)
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Craig Lamson on April 21, 2020, 06:55:32 pm: Quote from: Guillermo Luijk on April 21, 2020, 06:19:24 pm
Since you're showing a single house, that lack of action can be achieved anyday no matter if COVD-19 is out there or not, as long as the family living in the place remains indoor :p

yep, but it was snowing a bit too much to take the drone much higher. This was as far as I coud see it. Besides I liked the composition :)
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Craig Lamson on April 21, 2020, 07:01:18 pm: Quote from: Peter McLennan on April 18, 2020, 11:43:39 pm
Very nice.

Stupid parking, though.

Parking works fine once you get usued to it. The X5 is sitting outside the garage since I have my 530 in the middle of the garage working on it. The black Inifinity is my 90-YO moms and it almost never moves, and the Chrysler mini van usually only gets used when we are going on a shoot or to the home store. So all we really drive is the X5 and it is pretty easy to back out of the garage. YMMV
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on May 02, 2020, 05:28:21 pm: In Spain today we were allowed to go out for the first time since 14-mar to do some walking or sports (until now only buying food, some working activities and playing with kids).
The 'Walking Dead' atmosphere is actually just an illusion on these pictures, there were many more people outside in our urban countryside surroundings than any regular weekend.

(http://guillermoluijk.com/misc/paseocoronavirus1large.jpg)

(http://guillermoluijk.com/misc/paseocoronavirus2large.jpg)

(http://guillermoluijk.com/misc/paseocoronavirus3large.jpg)

Regards
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on May 15, 2020, 06:39:45 pm: May 15th. Belgrade al fresco, after curfew is lifted.
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Chris Kern on May 15, 2020, 06:50:26 pm: Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on May 15, 2020, 06:39:45 pm
May 15th. Belgrade al fresco, after curfew is lifted.

Interesting! Albeit perhaps a little scary for someone of my advanced years―although, with a little breeze, an outdoor location like that should be relatively safe unless someone infected near you coughs or, worse yet, sneezes.
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on May 16, 2020, 04:32:48 am: Quote from: Chris Kern on May 15, 2020, 06:50:26 pm
Interesting! Albeit perhaps a little scary for someone of my advanced years―although, with a little breeze, an outdoor location like that should be relatively safe unless someone infected near you coughs or, worse yet, sneezes.

I am now occasionally coughing and sneezing, once or twice a day, mostly from the fluffy white stuff floating in the air from trees. It gets in your throat when playing tennis and gasping for air :)
Title: Re: Pictures of the COVID-19 Shutdown
Post by: LesPalenik on May 16, 2020, 05:00:00 am: Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on May 16, 2020, 04:32:48 am
I am now occasionally coughing and sneezing, once or twice a day, mostly from the fluffy white stuff floating in the air from trees. It gets in your throat when playing tennis and gasping for air :)

Two days ago, we had here also white fluffy stuff coming down on the trees and from the trees, but since yesterday it got warmer.