PUMPKINS

One of our neighboring communities, Whitefish Bay, hosts a pumpkin carving display each year in a small village park.  This year on the Saturday before Halloween I paid the park a visit with my camera.  The display seemed to have two main components, pumpkins carved by residents--of all ages--and specialty pumpkins incorporating more complexity.

First a few shots of the "regular" jack-o-lanterns.

This is just a sampling of what must have been a few hundred such carvings.  It is evident that there is a variety of aesthetic quality to these pumpkins.

For decorative purposes the area was decorated with corn stalks, which I thought offered some opportunities for semi-abstracts.

For whatever reason, I also took a shot of a pumpkin with an elongated stem.  My goal was to keep the stem in good focus and to allow the pumpkins in the background to go out of focus but to remain identifiable.

And then there were the specialty pumpkins, which generally were much larger.

Orthodontics?

Too complicated?

Despite how it appears in this photograph, this last pumpkin was my favorite of the bunch.  Maybe it was the mascara and the eyelashes.

John