Happy New Year

Well dear fans of photomexican, i am back. I have been on a non-stop global journey of what we call "Extrememly Busy". In November I had the pleasure of working in Guatemala for ActionAid. It was a great experience. It has been a while since visiting the country and i forgot how beautiful it is. One of the great things about working for NGOs is that their projects take you to places that one would not visit either as a tourist or covering a news event. For me that was the case as we both worked in the Highlands or in the Jungle Lowlands. It was almost 3 weeks of having the joy of being a photojournalist again. These days my assignments tend to be "go photograph somebody and you got about 15 minutes" So shooting from dawn to dusk everyday reminded what fun it is to be a photographer. It was hard work and sleep came easy everyday.

It was also the first time I worked this way in Digital. I ended up shooting almost 80GB of pics. At the end of everyday i spent all my time backing my work up, which took forever as I write DVDs very slowly (2x) and of course backing up that on an external hard drive. Left little time for editing and working on the pics. The huge anount of pics i took hit me when I got back to London. It took me 2 weeks of post processing to deliver the work to ActionAid. 2 weeks of working til midnight.

Luckily at the end of this I had a holiday to look forward to visiting my family and my wife's family. But soon I was struck down by a sinus infection and horrific flu. I laid on a sofa trying to recover and watched bad american TV in my in-law's house.

I am back in London still not feeling a 100%. I am finding it hard to get back into the swing of things. The future is still kinda gloomy. Uncertain.