On the Road

This past weekend I drove nearly 500 miles for a few portrait sessions and Jalen’s basketball camps.   Some stops along the way included Freehold, Doylestown, and Jersey City.  Although the drives were long and sometimes boring, the colorful leaves helped ease the monotony.   I wasn’t able to stop as much as I would have liked to, but I did get a lot of time to think.  I thought a lot about stopping, and what it is to stop.   Mostly I was daydreaming of stopping in my car to take pictures, but just stopping in general.  Thinking back to March 2020 when we all stopped.  We stopped and waited for things to get better.  It was no doubt a scary and uncertain time, one that I am glad we have mostly moved on from but one thing we all did, was stop.  Stopped going out, stopped making plans, stopped working, stopped planning.  All these are shitty things to stop, but we stopped to to help make things get better.  Fast forward to this weekend, and by the looks of traffic and how packed the parks were, it was clear that we have un stopped.  Life has started up again.  So, on my way home from my last portrait session of the day on Sunday, I stopped.  I pulled my cover over stopped and took a few pictures.  I stopped and took a deep breath.  I stopped and looked at the landscape.  For now on, Im going to be stopping a lot more, but for the right reasons.  And you might see the results here on the Northern Touch Blog.