Digital Speed Challenge # 730: Halloween

This week's Challenge subject is anything associated with Halloween - spooks, goblins, sugary treats, colours ...

This challenge begins when posted and ends at midnight GMT on Halloween. Winner of this challenge will be announced shortly thereafter.


The Challenge Rules:

1. Camera: Any DIGITAL CAMERA is allowed, not just DSLR.
2. Time: Any on-topic photo taken at any time is eligible, although photos that have won other competitions should NOT be entered.
3. Size: Please visit Image Posting Rules.
4. Post Processing: Do whatever you like and the host will decide if it works.
5. Posting: ONE PHOTO per photographer per challenge. List camera model & lens used. Post brief EXIF data: ISO, shutter speed and aperture.
6. Commenting: No commenting during challenge. When the posting is closed and a winner declared, comments can be made in this thread.
7. Keep it clean, and both Family and Work safe.
8. Have questions, PM me.
9. Have lots of FUN!

>> THE WINNER ALWAYS SETS THE THEME FOR THE NEXT CHALLENGE, POSTS IT AND JUDGES IT - BE PREPARED

Our neighbor is into spiders this Halloween.

not really "halloween" but how about Día de los Muertos? its often association with halloween even though it's not celebrated the same way

Trick or Treat Cemetery Style

IMAGE LINK: https://photos.smugmug​.com …i-gPc7Kbw-X3.jpg&lb=1&s=A

My take (from over at the Worldwide Photo Week forum). This fella just won't leave my front lawn.

Photo from RDWP's gallery.
Image hosted by forum (1183537)

Hope you all had a great Halloween with lots of ghosts and goblins come knocking.

The images:

OldCrow (Spiders) – Nice. My oldest daughter would find this the most frightening of the set. Will remember to bring heavy-duty bug spray when I visit North Carolina.

LtDave (los Muertos) – A colourful display; fits in nicely with H’ween. Did some reading up on the festival. Fascinating traditions, and very “lively” for a day of the Dead

dilorenzo1954 (Headstone) – Interesting selection. Would love to know the tragic backstory. I’ve seen this custom of leaving mementos/relics on graves or the location of an accident from the high Arctic to the Equator, but this is probably the oldest where people are still leaving offerings, nearly 150 years post-demise.

Rainyday (Pumpkin) – Simple and effective. Very nicely done.

TerryPink (Skeleton) – Great effect. Like that its slightly transparent, too. That has to be the most realistic skeleton I’ve seen this year, right town to the tips of his (or her?) phalanges.

Winning photo this week:

Rainyday's pumpkin. As noted, very effective comp and tones.

Runner up is dilorenzo’s headstone.

Thanks folks; good treats all.

Rainyday/Leigh, lead us to the next challenge please.

Congratulations to Leigh and Ed.

Well done all.

Congratulations Rainyday, thanks for for second Rob!
Here is a little history on the tombstone (there's actually an encased statue on top of the gravestone as well...
http://undereverytombs​tone.blogspot.com …ried-here-lulu-e.html?m=1

dilorenzo1954 wrote in post #19442264
Congratulations Rainyday, thanks for for second Rob!
Here is a little history on the tombstone (there's actually an encased statue on top of the gravestone as well...
http://undereverytombs​tone.blogspot.com …ried-here-lulu-e.html?m=1

Thanks for the link with the story and photos of her statue. Lot of child and infant graves from that period - and for decades later - from typhoid, as well as scarlet fever and diphtheria. Lots of obstacles to adulthood, and still not the best chances after that for many.

RDWP wrote in post #19442149
Hope you all had a great Halloween with lots of ghosts and goblins come knocking.

The images:

OldCrow (Spiders) – Nice. My oldest daughter would find this the most frightening of the set. Will remember to bring heavy-duty bug spray when I visit North Carolina.

LtDave (los Muertos) – A colourful display; fits in nicely with H’ween. Did some reading up on the festival. Fascinating traditions, and very “lively” for a day of the Dead

dilorenzo1954 (Headstone) – Interesting selection. Would love to know the tragic backstory. I’ve seen this custom of leaving mementos/relics on graves or the location of an accident from the high Arctic to the Equator, but this is probably the oldest where people are still leaving offerings, nearly 150 years post-demise.

Rainyday (Pumpkin) – Simple and effective. Very nicely done.

TerryPink (Skeleton) – Great effect. Like that its slightly transparent, too. That has to be the most realistic skeleton I’ve seen this year, right town to the tips of his (or her?) phalanges.

Winning photo this week:

Rainyday's pumpkin. As noted, very effective comp and tones.

Runner up is dilorenzo’s headstone.

Thanks folks; good treats all.

Rainyday/Leigh, lead us to the next challenge please.

good choice. i liked it too!

Congrats Rainyday. Great lighting and composition. Well done.

It's been 24 hours since posting the winner but it seems that Rainydays is not available to put up a new challenge (also sent a PM yesterday). Ed, as runner-up, would you lead us on to the next?

Sorry to miss you this time, Leigh, but glad to have you in the game again.

New challenge posted!

https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1527605