There's Only Ever Going To Be One Halloween 2020
Take it while you can
If you have kids or if you are a big kid yourself, you know this Halloween is different. The parties, group games, parades, and trick-or-treating; all gone or scaled back as to be almost unrecognizable. It's enough to make you keep your camera (iPhone) in your pocket.
Please don't.
This is the kickoff of the holiday season, the first of many traditional festivities that bookmark the year, and it's just going to be different. You need to capture that.
The thing is, it's hard to appreciate how meaningful an unexpected experience can be when you're right in the middle of it. Someday we will look back on 2020. We will want to see how it was. Both the odd and the familiar. This is a time to keep taking pictures; not just the cookies, but your family baking the cookies. Not just lined up for the school bus, but spread out on the table Zooming a class online. And the signs and posters and lines at the grocery store. Museums are already asking for artifacts and pictures of this experience to document this extraordinary time as it happens.
We should too.
Train station commuter lot.
So throughout the holidays this year, be sure to take some everyday shots. Some surprising shots. And especially some shots that we only get because we are thrown together as a family or roommates or circumstance and we experience this weird journey together.
Record how your family and friends navigated this time. That's your assignment.
Pandemic photography. Who would have thought?
Playing Pandemic. How meta.