B&W Halloween 2021

Basement Buddies

October Mists

2020 & 2021 Leftovers

 

More Basement Monsters

With crazy lighting...

Windy October

A short video I took after setting up the scarecrows, fencing, and fake pumpkin patch this past October.  

2020 Vs 2021

Man, I love Halloween.  It's the most incredible and bizarre holiday.  Strangers visit strangers for candy, and hopefully a scare.  We mock death by putting out fake tombstones and corpses.  We hang ghosts and witches and fake spider webs.  We hollow out pumpkins to greet our guests with flickering features.  Those of us who are Haunters create small spooky worlds on our lawns and porches.  We smile and laugh when we hear the inevitable screams.  And the screams inevitably turn into laughs.  

It's that laughter, disappearing down the street into the cold darkness of Halloween night, that makes this Holiday so absolutely perfect.

Color Choices

Rando 2021 Haunt Photos

Playing with filters.

B&W Samhain

I love this guy.  And apparently (and thankfully), he was quite the hit with parents and trick-or-treaters last year.  More photos were taken by people of this prop than in any other year.  I think it was his smile?

I have a feeling it was the Traditional nature of the Haunt...a pumpkin-headed cloaked figure, standing over an iron cauldron hemorrhaging green [incense] smoke.  It was funny to see small children posing next to him as their parents snapped away.  Samhain didn't seem to mind.  Though he didn't seem happy either.  It's his way.

I'd like to say I learned a lesson from all of this.  That this year's display will be a photo opportunity.  But I'm thinking it's going to be just the opposite.  

We shall see...

Monster Squad

Before And After

2021 Leftovers

Pre-Halloween Setup

A photo from when I put up the fencing, scarecrows, and pumpkin patch a week before Halloween.

I used to loathe the wires and poles around the house, but I've grown to see them as making the display appear more rural and strange.

Photo Fiddling

Samhain Creeping

Nail Nose

More Samhain

Some pre-Halloween lighting tests...

More Halloween Photos

Was at a retirement party at an Ale House tonight (Omicron for sure) and a good friend of mine who visited on Halloween night told someone I was the "Halloween Guy," and I saw him flipping through photos on his phone to show them.  It was neat seeing my Haunt through someone else's lens.

I asked him to send them to me so I could post them...

Scarecrows, Monsters, And Spirits