This recession it's biting harder

Scary news for motor sport fans, and world rally fans in particular; Suzuki and now Subaru have pulled out of the WRC for 2009. All this follows on the heels of the Honda team exit from F1. I'm wondering where to get my motorsport fix in 2009 already. I'm looking to have a go at the Honda sponsored four stroke powerboat races for something different to photograph.

On a more practical note for me, and I'm sure many others, my employers have elected to delay our annual pay increase that's due in January. Now it'll be reviewed again in April to see if we get one, and from what I hear the company is struggling with a new kind of "no profit and some losses" account that used to be called the P&L account. Strange when the parent company overseas has recently talked about a pile of money it's holding back for when the recovery starts; a kind of business kick start fund. All the while the utility companies are looking at my small pile of cash and thinking it would be better added to their larger pile of cash.

So how to get out of the bleak state of mind and economy. Digital photography is free once you've bought the camera. More product photography skills when new products need pictures after the recession might not be a bad idea, and the practice could take your mind off all the doomongers on tv.

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