So what should photographers do while sitting at home waiting for life to return to normal?

By Andrew Graham Todes, Professional Photographer

During these next few weeks/months:

1. Photograph your family.
2. Finish all of your editing.
3. Read an art history book. (e.g. The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich.)
4. Flip through that mountain of photo books you have sitting on your studio floor gathering dust.
5. Take a free online virtual museum tour. Discover a painter or two and fall in love with his/her work. Study it. Savor it. 
6. Read a novel. Read a biography. Take up a new hobby. Play around with a foreign language on Duolingo.

''If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.'' -- Jay Maisel.

7. Take an online art appreciation course given by The Great Courses company.
8. Watch a beautiful arthouse movie or two. (In The Mood for Love, Days of Heaven, Barry Lyndon, The Thin Red Line, Drive, etc.)
9. Purchase relatively cheap editing software under, say, $80 and play around with it. Lightroom presets are tons of fun and can really add pizazz to your work.

Speaking of which. My most important piece of advice:

10. Re-edit your favorite photos. YOU SHOULD BE DOING THIS ON A REGULAR BASIS ANYWAY. Your skill in editing accounts for as much as 80% of the look of the final photograph. You might be surprised to learn I have edited and re-edited some of my favorite photos 20 times or more. That is, every few months/years I take the RAW file and EDIT IT AGAIN COMPLETELY FROM SCRATCH. This is a fantastic method for tracking your artistic development and vision.

As Paul Valery said: ''A poem is never finished, only abandoned.'' A photograph is NEVER finished, either.

Get to work.

P.S.
11. Be responsible. Explore supplemental avenues of income if cash reserves are tight.