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October 2015 challenge: Monster Mash - a Graveyard Smash
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Wearing a costume reminiscent of Santa Fe's ghost, mid-90s looking BNSF local freight L CHI1051 31A hustles 62 cars of Galesburg traffic out of the Chicago area at Lockport, IL, on a chilly Halloween afternoon along the Chillicothe Subdivision. It's beginning to look a lot more like Christmas than Halloween on this 31st of October, prompting many Chicago-area municipalities to postpone their trick-or-treating festivities to a night of more favorable weather.
This actually is the "Patrick Building" (aka: Harker Building) without PA. It is in the Yamhill Historic District, Portland, OR.
Just in time for Halloween, a freak October snowstorm brought heavy wet snow to our region.. strange to see the trees peaking with autumn color suddenly blanketed in snowfall!
A Native American mask from Western Canada, found in Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium.
Happy, scary and fun Halloween!
Another shot of the A.T.S. Automatics HB Torana Trik Shot.
You don't see to many HD Toranas and this one is is a little more special than most with its power plant. The motor is a mechanically supercharged Holden six and is sure to generate more than a few smiles when the right foot is planted towards the floor. Must have been quite a few days and nights getting it sorted, but it was in my opinion a stand out of the show.
Winterish Allure is ready to trick or treat.
I spent some free time sewing Blythe Halloween dresses in August knowing I would not have any time in October. This is one of them. The pumpkin fabric is from Joanne's. It is a knit.
Blythe Winterish Allure
Dress, headband, and bag made by me
Background - place mat
Gravestones - Dollar Tree (many years ago)
Trees and black branches - Target and Dollar Tree (this year)
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Shown life-size, at least from my perspective. I hiked the Pump Station Trail on nearby Eno River last Saturday to perhaps catch the last of the local autumn color. Working my way off the trail to the river to look at a possible composition sent me through a tangle of old spider webs. Keeping my eye on the path, I ran headlong into a web spanned across tall milkweeds that was, how shall we say, occupado. I realized it about the time one of these critters came into focus appearing quite this size at the bridge of my nose. I startled it likely more than it did me… it retreated behind a dried leaf as I bounded through its web. I can imagine her watching me approach through eight compound eyes, “Oh, yeah. Ohhh, yeah! Oh, no!” That pretty spider made for a more fitting composition. There were many more hanging around in their webs, just waiting to have their pictures taken. “Smile… and don’t blink.” This is an Araneus marmoreus spider, commonly known as a marbled orbweaver, but it’s also known by some other names… any guesses? If you thought pumpkin spider or Halloween spider, you would be right. One of my contacts pointed out that it has candy corn legs. I'm not ashamed to admit that I love candy corn, though in small quantities. It may be more an issue of good memories of Halloweens past when I was a kid. With that in mind, I'm throwing in candy corn spider, too... it just fits. It's backlit in this image, and the web is refracting the light like strands of rainbow.
I had to buy a life sized doll to model this vintage Halloween costume with this awful mask because, well… it was just too good not to use in a photo! Growing up, I never had a store bought Halloween costume. My mom always made us costumes… and sometimes Dad even made them. Mom sewed. Dad was a carpenter. And yes, sometimes he “built” costumes! How I wish I had pictures… Every year there would be a Halloween parade through town, ending at the school where there was a costume contest, Needless to say, my sister and I took home prizes most years! I did the same for my kids, but could never top the costumes that my parents made!
**Tried to add this from my phone last night.. .and it showed up multiple times. Had to delete a few! I guess it's going to be ONE OF THOSE DAYS!!
Hullo gals&ghouls!
The lovely Ms. Casey Wilder and myself have come up with a cute little set of trick or treat buckets for you!
This is a mainstore collab! Out now @ both mainstores!
All three buckets come bento holdable, as well as unscripted to go along with the full pose.
Catch a ride to either location here:
Honey Lemon:
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Space Cadet:
Lucy:"All you have to do is walk up to a house, ring the doorbell, and say 'tricks or treats.'"
Sally: "Are you sure it's legal?"
Lucy: "Of course it's legal."
Sally: "I wouldn't want to be accused of taking part in a rumble."
An earlier B&W Pano-Sabotage piece referenced to classic Science Fiction writer, John Wyndham's short story, "Confidence Trick" in it's notes. I'd decided not to name that image after the story but the idea of doing so with the kind of big city imagery that I do stayed with me until I went with it with this one.
Briefly, as with most Science Fiction, the story is really a proposition of philosophical ideas being worked out through a speculative narrative. Does that make the idea any less rigorous? It's the idea not it's vehicle that's the all-important gist.
Wyndham's story examines the notion of a kind of solipsism wherein one man begins to doubt what he sees as reality, thinking that it might just be a construct of his own consciousness.
As the story goes on he lays out all the thoughts that lead him to that conclusion. One day on a busy city street he decides that what he sees is a 'confidence trick' and he that he's going to pull his investment from it to see what happens.
He stands on the street and with the full force of his intent he starts to declare that he no longer believes what he sees. Before he can finish his sentence, the world in front of him begins to crumble and dissolve.
Flicker artist Solano Snapper raised the question of whether this was all in his mind or if it was literal. Fantastic point for discussion. This would make an excellent topic for University or College philosophy and/ or literature classes to debate.
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Black and White Pano-Sabotage continues. "Pano-Sabotage" is the technique of deliberately MIS-using the smart phone's pano camera function to create marked and unique effects WITH THE CAMERA. Some post processing is done for balance and contrast etc, but the EFFECT of the "facet-ized" imagery is done IN the camera, AT the moment of shooting.
See the Flickr group, "PANO-Vision" for a gallery of said imagery as practiced by a small roster of dedicated, serious artists who are pushing this medium into fantastic new places.
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2016. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
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Pose Infiniti Trick or Treat
A full Hunter's Moon aka Blood Moon over Eastern Nebraska Monday evening. It appeared to be a Halloween-orange as it rose over the horizon.
Every day, twice a day, we run Jasper through his tricks. Keeps the mind sharp and gives him a chance to earn some treats. This one is "jump". Pretty basic and always fun. But he also knows beg, wave, roll over, play possum, paws up, say your prayers, play dead, turn right, turn left, put it in the basket and take a bow. I know there are others that I can't think of. I think he likes jump best. He was born to fly.
It's a Small World.
Please feel free to check out my new online shop where limited edition work can now be purchased:
These little dolls are available at the Scare Me Silly event:
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(I should have mentioned that earlier for anyone who wants them. Sorry, I'm not a blogger.)
This is an un-posed, in situ photo of a western black widow I found yesterday, the day before Halloween, literally living under a decorative Halloween pumpkin on our front porch. If you look closely, you can even see one of her fangs. After taking her picture, I relocated her to the garden, since this pumpkin will only be around for a couple of weeks and isn't a good long-term home for her.