Since the Earthquake I have pressed the shutter button on my camera more than 3590 times.  I am not sure of my actual shot count because there are some where  the exposure was off or the focus didn’t catch and those I tossed.  Most of these images are just record shots, documenting conditions for the Resurgence Project.

Included in these images are a few that are interesting, from a photographic perspective.

Some of them work in colour… in this case the colour is one of the things that makes it interesting.

Some of them could go either way. This one, for example, has only one hue. I think it looks equally as dramatic in black and white as it does in colour. What do you think?

But other images get their power by processing them just into black and white images.

I have put together a gallery on my   grs photography portfolio site B&W Faces of some of the faces that I captured. If you like black and white images please have a look.

We are still working hard to build some of these people new homes.

Donate  Outside of Ecuador you can send me funds through my paypal ( I will post an update accounting for these funds), inside Ecuador you can deposit directly in the bank account of FDOL.  You can also send the funds directly to this account from outside Ecuador!   We are setting up a gofundme, but the 8% in fees that are charged could be better spent on houses.

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Thank you for reading and any help would be appreciated.

Rebuilt wheelchair shows the resourcefulness of Ecuadorians

One of the things I like about Ecuador is the resourcefulness, of the people.  This may come from having so little, so everything is reused when it can be.

A kitchen in the house of a visually impaired women. Her house was relatively undamaged in the Earthquake.

A kitchen in the house of a visually impaired women. Her house was relatively undamaged in the Earthquake

Food storage in a house in Ecuador

When you don’t have much, you use what you have.

A doll on a bed in a house in Ecuador.

I think is one of the things that makes me so sad when I see the houses of some of the visually impaired that the Fundation is trying to help. They had so little to begin with, and then to lose that to the earthquake.

A bed and other debris on the side of the road after the april 16 earthquake in Ecuador

In my photographing for the PROYECTO RESURGIR / RESURGENCE PROJECT( a project to help rebuild the houses, the lives, of some visually impaired people ( and their families)). I notice a lot of broken Induction cooktops. These were sold with subsidies from the government, to cut down on the use of gas. I don’t know how easy it will be to fix these.

A new Induction cooker damaged by the earthquake. The government had a program to help people to buy these to save gas, but many of them are now broken.

I am still looking for help for these people, please like and share so I can get the attention of the people who can help.