The Traditional Halloween Pumpkin
Halloween is definitely my favorite holiday season and has been since I was a child. Maybe it brings back such fond memories of my Mom making my costume and taking me out to trick or treat. Back in those days, the treats were usually home made baked goodies and so delicious!
In celebration of this year's Halloween, I carefully selected a large pumpkin to carve in to a scary Jack O Lantern. The name Jack O Lantern is derived from European origin: Jack who was a character that tricked the devil, plus the phenomenon of strange lights flickering over peat bogs.
Since I've always been intrigued with haunted houses, I decided to make a haunted house design on my pumpkin. On a warm, sunny morning this past week, I began the carving. After selecting the proper tools, I placed them and the pumpkin on a plastic trash bag, because this can be a messy task. A key hole saw with the serrated edges works great on the larger pumpkins. I used an ice cream scoop to clean out the inside, after of course saving the seeds for roasting later! Then I used some smaller tools that I bought just for the details.
When the pumpkin was carved to my satisfaction, I carefully washed it off with a garden hose in an area where the birds could enjoy the remains.
While the Jack O Lantern was drying, Sasha did a quick pose to practice her arched back for Halloween night.
Later that night, I did a trial run by lighting my Jack O Lantern and taking photos. I was pleasantly surprised and a little scared with the spooky house and the strange shapes in the candle light!
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With my Nikon and tripod, my goal is to recreate the scene as it appears in nature, to preserve in a photographic image the awesome, yet simplistic beauty of the scene that waits around a bend or over a hill. Sometimes it's a colorful landscape, and many times I'm allowed in the presence of the numerous creatures that adapt to life in the wild.
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