The colour of the times is changing. The accelerating pace of technological, economic and social change is transforming livelihoods and landscapes; many face a danger of disappearing altogether in the not-so-distant future. We do not think it appropriate to make a normative judgment on whether this change is socially good or bad. However, we do believe that it is important to document the present for future generations that would want to look back at history, just like we do today. Though text-documentation of livelihoods and landscapes is widely available, visual recording and documentation is relatively sparse and dispersed. Here we have attempted to document some of the occupations that Buchanan encountered on his Journey of 1800-01; oil pressing, limestone-making, coconut charcoal, salt-making and shell mining. To our surprise, some of them were still carried out with the same technology that Buchanan sometimes describes.
