Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Same scene, two cameras
Before Halloween we went over to Sherman's Farm in Coupeville to check out their pumpkins and to see families enjoying the trolley rides through the fields, the cows eating pumpkins (who knew?), and excited children running around all over the place.
Off to one side I saw this old wicker chair with pumpkins on it. I shot the top photograph using a DSLR and a 100mm lens. The scene was deeply shaded and I left a bit of the bluish color in the shot because I liked the mood.
Then I used my iPhone 6+ and took the second picture. I was able to move in much closer and sort of hover overhead to compose it.
That wasn't enough, however. I used a Prisma app to change the entire look, from a moody, shady image above, to this light, bright, more festive picture. I like both of them, but find myself more drawn to the iPhone shot, just because it's a bit more fun to look at.
Yes, it's not real. Yes, it's an app. But it's not PRETENDING to be anything else than what it is -- a tricked-out cellphone shot.
Happy election day. May this all be over soon.
©Carol Leigh
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Monday, October 31, 2016
Spooky surprises . . .
The shop was closed.
But a skeleton was near the front window, so I pressed my camera up against the glass and photographed him.
I particularly like the pin holding the jawbone intact as well as the hook and eye that allows the top part of the skull to open and then stay securely closed.
I mean, we just don't find things like this at the local Wal-Mart!
Wishing you a Happy Halloween, no matter where you find it.
©Carol Leigh
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Saturday, October 29, 2016
Fun in a cemetery.
It was a gorgeous day and so we visited a number of places on the island. Sunnyside Cemetery overlooking Ebey's Prairie was stop #1.
And there was one grave that immediately caught our attention.
Apparently a dear departed dad had a fondness for Halloween, and his family/friends decked out the gravesite in fine fashion for him, with lots of bones, skulls, skeletons, bats, ghosts, and creepy figures such as this guy.
Solar-powered skull lights lined the grave, and a motion sensor caused creepy folks hanging from trees to suddenly shake and turn this way and that. And then they stop.
But when you lean in close with your iPhone to get a close-up of the creature's face, the creature unexpectedly comes alive again, which startled the heck out of me. And startled subsequent visitors, much to my amusement.
Now whether Dad truly did love Halloween is total speculation on my part. But somebody did/does, and the result is a surreal note of life and hilarity in an otherwise somber setting.
It was weird, it was fun, and it resulted in this photograph, which I never in a million years would have expected to make.
Happy Halloween! Got candy?
©Carol Leigh
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Friday, October 30, 2015
Happy Halloween!
©Carol Leigh
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