A family Halloween

in Ladies of Hive5 months ago

A family Halloween photo shoot!

My daughter posed for the photos and my daughter-in-law used Photoshop to make the pictures even spookier!

When the children are little we all had fun helping them dress up in costumes and baked treats for the parties they had at school. We held their hands and helped them cross the streets as they went out in the evening shouting trick-or-treat at the doors of neighborhood houses.

It's helpful that my daughter has plenty of autumn/Samhain/Halloween decorations in her craft room.

Samhain (a Gaelic word pronounced “sow-win”) is a pagan religious festival originating from an ancient Celtic spiritual tradition. It is usually celebrated from October 31 to November 1 to welcome in the harvest and usher in “the dark half of the year.
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When the kids grow up we need to make our own entertainment. Creating these Halloween photos and sharing them with you turned into a family party! Hope you enjoy the photos!

all photos are from my family albums

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Those photos are amazing. They really capture Halloween and are rather disturbing. All it needed was a sacrificial goat for some full-on horror!
Hope your week is going well, Melinda :-)

Thanks! These were only intended to be fun and spooky, not horror filled! No goats were harmed. 😁

I enjoy your images, my dear Melinda, they are spectacular and invite me to live in the United States for being a country that highlights that culture that loves spooky days.
Love from Caracas.

Your stories are a perfect fit for Halloween! I'm happy you enjoyed these photos. Always feel free to use them, with credit, if they work to illustrate your stories!
!INDEED

WOW thank you!

 5 months ago Reveal Comment

Thanks for the definition of Samhain, that's something I didn't know.

Photos certainly help to fix memories, and children grow so fast that it's a good thing to have to remember their early years better.

!GIF Samhain
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It's always fun to have family photos to look back on!
We will enjoy these for years to come!

Greetings @melinda010100, I will tell you that your daughter looks in the pictures,like a real wizard, priestess or witch on Hallowen.
Very nice photos and staging, congratulations.


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She will be happy to hear that you think she achieved the look that she was going for!

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 5 months ago Reveal Comment

What a creative way to get into Halloween vibes. Love the photos and I can only imagine the fun you had during the photoshoot :)

!LADY

My family does enjoy photography and this seemed a great season of the year to stage dome photos!

Fun photos 🙂 I was busy googling Samhain until I read on and saw you defined it for us haha Nice your family finds a way to still celebrate without young children around. We have mostly given up except for a few pumpkins 🙁

It mainly happened because Ella wanted Halloween photos for a class she is taking! It worked out well for me since I got to share them here.

Hello lady @melinda010100 good day
What creative Halloween photos, I love them. I see you had a lot of fun taking these shots

Thanks! It was a lot of fun!

Somewhat witch-ery, somewhat vampire-ey! Somewhat scary too, if seen in a dark night!

Pretty fun time!

Seeing how the photos turned out was fun!

Recently, at work with female colleagues, a conversation about the holidays came up and I said that Halloween was coming soon. They answered me - this is not our holiday, we do not celebrate this.

I wanted to decorate the house's entrance for the holiday, but I completely forgot about it; I only remembered it late.

They are missing out! Are there any old celebrations for harvest that take place at this time of year?

I don't remember such a holiday.
It is likely that there was something similar once, but in Soviet Times the holiday "Agricultural Worker's Day" was introduced, which is celebrated on the second Sunday of October. It turns out he was there last week. In our country, they still like to celebrate various Soviet holidays, especially professional ones.

I requested "autumn holidays in Russia," and Yandex gave me a list. There are a lot of professional military holidays there, which made me sad.
When we were young, we used to have an autumn ball at our club in the village.

Search 'Russia Slavic pagans' and see what you find

I specifically did not search for such a query. The country is big. And our region is a bit special in terms of "old Slavic holidays".
Perhaps I should say that there are old Tatar and Udmurt villages across the river in our area. There are really old holidays there, and there is a special holiday—Sabantuy ("plow holiday") is an annual national holiday of the end of spring fieldwork among the Tatars and Bashkirs

We can say that there was an autumn holiday - September 21, which is simply called the Harvest Festival. But... I say that in September, not all the crops are harvested from the fields, from the gardens, so I doubt the celebration of this day among the ancient Slavs, especially since the Slavs are southern, eastern, and northern. And these are regions and life that are completely different in terms of climatic conditions. Non-Slavic customs and holidays have been preserved better - for example, Tatars, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Kalmyks, peoples of the Caucasus, Siberia, and the Far East.

I see! So much diversity there!

Nice photos 🤩😍

Thanks!

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Great photos and great job capturing the mood of the season

Thanks so much! I appreciate that you stopped by.

I hadn't heard of Samhain before. Thanks for the explanation.

I think more people are becoming aware of some of the old pagan traditions.

Winner!

😁Thanks!

Glad you all had fun. I guess you will still be doing it on the coming Halloween then.

It was a fun pre-Halloween photo shoot!

!LADY

Thank you! ❤️

Happy halloween ma'am ❤️

Thanks! It is a fun time of year!

Welcome

A creative way of getting into that Halloween mode 🎃
!LADY

It is a fun time of year!
!INDEED

 5 months ago Reveal Comment

Those are great Halloween vibe photos. Good photography work

Thanks for the kind words!
!LADY


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Thanks!

 5 months ago Reveal Comment

Oooh wow, that looks like so much pre party fun. Love the photos ✨

Thank you!
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Thanks so much @indeedly

 5 months ago Reveal Comment

@melinda010100 @indeedly. Thank you so much 🤩

Very fun! Looks like a party to me!
!BBH

It was fun to see what Ella did with all these photos using Photoshop!

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gold and honey sister

I can see that your family is having a great celebration. Enjoy!