Happy Halloween!

Things were looking grim as Sandy ripped its way through the Eastern US, but Halloween is on as usual here in Virginia.  We had two non-Sandy related casualties, however, in the way of two-thirds of our carving pumpkins having rotted.  So we were left with one pumpkin to do our themed carving on.  I managed to fit both patterns on the one pumpkin, and voila, here it is it all its gory glory.

(And don't forget to see my third annual Halloween video here.)

Recipe for faux blood: corn syrup, chocolate syrup, and red food coloring.

picture fall three: the beauty challenge

It’s easy to find beauty in seasons that boast vibrant colors and blooms, but what about when Nature begins its retreat? It takes a much keener eye to seek out the beautiful in starkness. Look beyond what you might normally notice and discover something that most people would overlook and perhaps never deem photo-worthy.

happy, happy halloween!

As promised, here is my 'Halloween color day'.

Have a safe holiday!

brown

It's the final day in Poppytalk's color week, and I'm sad.  It's been fun routing through my old pictures to find some not based on subject, but rather color.

Here's hoping that Poppytalk will do a winter color week in a few months.

I've been enjoying autumn color week so much...

that I'm going to have to hold my own Halloween color day.  On Halloween, I'm going to post pictures of the following colors:

red, brown, {bright} green, purple, orange

My goal is to get out and shoot some of these colors in the next few days so I have some new work to post.  If anyone actually reads this and wants to join, go for it and comment me your link!

Gray

Appropriate color for a gray day.

orange

It's orange day during Poppytalk's autumn colors week - the day I was most excited for!  I can't wait to see what orange photos people post to the flickr pool.

yellow

It's day two of autumn color week!  Today we celebrate the color yellow:

it's autumn color week!

I'm so excited to participate in my first Poppytalk color week!  Each day this week will have a different autumn color theme to it.  Today's color is red, and photographers are encouraged to post any photo with a predominately red subject to the autumn color week flickr group, as well as on their blog.  The rest of the week's schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, October 18th - Yellow | Wednesday, October 19th - Orange | Thursday, October 20th - Grey | Friday, October 21st - Brown
Join in by posting your own autumn color photos to the group.  And now, for some red:

One of my pictures was featured on Poppytalk's page!  Super!