Do you go out on Halloween!?

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I don't mean trick or treating, nor are you scred to go out because of the ghouls and ghosts!

What I mean is, do you go out with your Camera on Halloween? I am certain that there is a lot of potential for some really great shots. Kids out, having fun all dressed up, trick or treating etc.

The thing is though, I would think twice about going out with the camera. Mainly, any yobs that are out for trouble, your a likely target perhaps? and then there is the fact that your photograhing kids out in the street at night. Potentially asking for trouble? Or would you make a piont of only photographing those with an adult and make sure you ask first, loosing the ability to take candids?

Its one I have been pondering, I don't mean this to be a thread where we slag the authorities and press etc. I just wondered what poeple will be doing?
 
I did it! visited a village graveyard. :eek:

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fabs said:
I go out on halloween, I go down to the stables and spend the time with the horses, because they don't knock on my door and ask for sweeties! :bang: I know it sounds mean, but I just don't get the idea of dressing your kids up in scary costumes so they can go out and beg for sweets. :shrug:
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because the kids love it.


although i go out with mine but all houses have been asked if we can visit and i provide the sweets.
 
I agree pal, and so did my rents :lol: I never went out on Halloween as a kid.

I just wondered how people view the night as a togging opp, as there is a potential for candids of kids really having fun.

Our flat is on the first floor and has an intercom entry so having to give out sweets to begging kids isn't a problem!
 
I hire an ice cream van, lace the goodies with laxative, and drive to the nearest council estate and hand the stuff out to the chav's for free.

I call it care in the community :D
 
sheffield usually has a halloween party wth everyone dressed up! I dont think togging there would be a problem. jsut ask for permission first from parents if they look too young.
 
Some of you are a miserable bunch arent you! If kiddies knock on your door all dressed up show some community spirit, join in! Give them sweets or fruit! No wonder people dont know their neighbours nowadays if you hate community activities and rituals!

We have a massive party, we cook a whole animal on a spit in my back garden, a lamb this year, it was a pig last year. We buy in lots of sweets and goodies for the kiddies who knock the door too.

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Its part of our history, enjoy it, dont let it die out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
 
Baz777 said:
I'm going to try and photograph the moon this year with my mother-in-law flying across it on here broom! :suspect:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

Ill be in Whitby! That will make for interesting togging oppertunities! Haha!

Mike
 
BOM said:
Some of you are a miserable bunch arent you!

Its part of our history, enjoy it, dont let it die out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
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Yep, and proud to be a member of the Victor Meldrew club! :D

As for history and tradition... pah, it's american led nonsense! Here's an extract from your link:

"Halloween celebrations in England were popularised in the late twentieth century under the pressure of American cultural influence, including a stream of films and television programmes aimed at children and adolescents, and the discovery by retail experts of a marketing opportunity to fill the empty space before Christmas. Between 2001 and 2006, consumer spending in the UK for Halloween rose tenfold from £12 m to £120 m, according to Bryan Roberts from industry analysts Planet Retail, making Halloween the third most profitable holiday for supermarkets"

Now if someone show's me a way to make money in photography from it i might change my mind ;) lol
 
Samhain is probably the earliest traditrion that closest links to all hallows eve.

A celtic festival where a great feast/food was left out for the dead who for one night crossed the bridge of swords to walk the earth....... I could go on but its a photography forum not a history one! lol
 
Indeed, another American import.

Also don’t forget, a lot of old and venerable people are terrorised on this so-called festival each year.

Last year I wired our door knocker to the mains so I’m not expecting as many callers this time.
 
hepburn said:
Yep, and proud to be a member of the Victor Meldrew club! :D

As for history and tradition... pah, it's american led nonsense! Here's an extract from your link:

"Halloween celebrations in England were popularised in the late twentieth century under the pressure of American cultural influence, including a stream of films and television programmes aimed at children and adolescents, and the discovery by retail experts of a marketing opportunity to fill the empty space before Christmas. Between 2001 and 2006, consumer spending in the UK for Halloween rose tenfold from £12 m to £120 m, according to Bryan Roberts from industry analysts Planet Retail, making Halloween the third most profitable holiday for supermarkets"

Now if someone show's me a way to make money in photography from it i might change my mind ;) lol
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Dammit I should read my links more thoroughly :lol: We certainly enjoyed halloween celebrations way before 2001! Its roots go back hundreds of years.

How to make money out of it, wander the streets taking candids and hand out a business card to everyone you take a pic of :)
 
hepburn said:
Between 2001 and 2006, consumer spending in the UK for Halloween rose tenfold from £12 m to £120 m, according to Bryan Roberts from industry analysts Planet Retail, making Halloween the third most profitable holiday for supermarkets"
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Thats because generations of parents are getting lay. Everyone used to have home made costumes, now they just buy them! Disgrace!!!

Halloween, and the festivals based around the date, are traced back to this country if i remember rightly. Wasnt it a pagan festival which was taken over by christians and the whole "witches" and magic came about because the pagans used to make medicine using potions etc and christians believed it black magic or something like that?
 
MJ Stebbings said:
Thats because generations of parents are getting lay. Everyone used to have home made costumes, now they just buy them! Disgrace!!!

Halloween, and the festivals based around the date, are traced back to this country if i remember rightly. Wasnt it a pagan festival which was taken over by christians and the whole "witches" and magic came about because the pagans used to make medicine using potions etc and christians believed it black magic or something like that?
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Samhain....
 
:razz:

I got confuddled, I'll go and mutter in the corner now :lol:
 
Well, Swansea is arranging the train ride - in full costume - from the city to Mumbles. I am sure there will be plenty of kids, and adults out that night .. and I do plan to be there shooting all the funny stuff I see.

Yes, it is a 100% American culture thingi ... but to me, any excuse to get out, have fun, and watch others enjoy themselves is :thumbs: .. the world needs more fun and laughter.
 
BOM said:
Dammit I should read my links more thoroughly :lol: We certainly enjoyed halloween celebrations way before 2001! Its roots go back hundreds of years.
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hehe. I do realise the roots and my comments are a little tongue in cheek. I just feel it's got very commercial now, and the kids are not exempt from some nasty tactics if they get no sweets. When I lived stateside the kids were generally well behaved, often accompanied by parents, and it was mostly a pleasant time.

BOM said:
How to make money out of it, wander the streets taking candids and hand out a business card to everyone you take a pic of :)
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oh I can see it now. Sign this effing model release form or you get no sweets! :lol:
 
trick, treat or model release..... doesnt run off the tongue does it!
 
BOM said:
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Its part of our history, enjoy it, dont let it die out!
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As has been said, the trick or treat nonsense is a ghastly recent American import.

This would not matter were it not for the fact that it has almost completely supplanted the real part of our history for this time of year which is the ritual request for a "penny for the Guy".

Of course that did not make so much for the supermarkets and required a bit of work and imagination from parents and children.

All I know is that every year my work in a police control room becomes more of a nightmare at halloween due to the ever increasing numbers of marauding gangs of teenagers demanding money with menaces (aka "trick or treat").
 
We still get kids doing "Penny for the Guy" too! More like pound for the guy nowadays though due to inflation :lol:

Maybe its the lack of community policing that lets the marauding gangs of teenagers get away with it. We shouldnt stop a tradition due to a few bad apples.

Thats not a direct dig at you, please dont take it a such, I honestly would love to see more police on the beat and a local bobby in the community centre like there used to be.
 
hepburn said:
hehe. I do realise the roots and my comments are a little tongue in cheek. I just feel it's got very commercial now, and the kids are not exempt from some nasty tactics if they get no sweets. When I lived stateside the kids were generally well behaved, often accompanied by parents, and it was mostly a pleasant time.



oh I can see it now. Sign this effing model release form or you get no sweets! :lol:
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Why would you need a model release? Take loads of people wandering around dressed up, hand out a business card, job done. They can then go to your website, view and purchase.
 
I don't go out, I lock my door and turn the bell off.

Keep those darn begging kids away from me. :annoyed:
 
BOM said:
Some of you are a miserable bunch arent you! If kiddies knock on your door all dressed up show some community spirit, join in! Give them sweets or fruit! No wonder people dont know their neighbours nowadays if you hate community activities and rituals!

We have a massive party, we cook a whole animal on a spit in my back garden, a lamb this year, it was a pig last year. We buy in lots of sweets and goodies for the kiddies who knock the door too.


Its part of our history, enjoy it, dont let it die out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
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thats all well and good, but its not biritish tradition its so americanised i hate it
 
I love the way this has turned into a for/against tradition/not tradition argument!

I only wondered what/where/how poeple intended doing/shooting on the 31st, but do carry on...!

:popcorn:
 
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