halloween continued.

so i had the pleasure of spending almost 4 hours on halloween photographing kids in costumes trick-or-treating. well, not really. apparently nowadays kids go with their parents to malls or storefronts in their costumes rather than go door-to-door. at least, that's how they seem to do it around these parts. when i was a kid, all the excitement was about the surprise at each house. it seems like such a waste to put so much effort into a costume just to walk up to a lady in her store with a basket and have her dump 2 lollipops and a handful of candy corn into your plastic pumpkin.

but maybe that's just me. either way, you can't go wrong with kids in costumes outside before sunset. makes for some good picture-taking situations.

i was pretty stoked to get these two photos, mostly because it involved me pulling myself out of this slump i've been in lately with daily work. all the stores on a main drag in stockton opened their doors for trick-or-treaters, but mostly it was kids and parents in the street. i was walking by a dress shop, and i saw a little girl dressed like minnie mouse playing with a couple chihuahuas.

at first, i thought, no no no, i'm not going to walk into that store. so i took a couple steps then told myself to suck it up and walk in. i got in there, and this girl was watching the dogs while her friends got dolled up in their costumes in one of the dressing rooms. a little different scenery from the rest of the shots, and i never would have known if i hadn't forced myself to walk in.

so happy halloween... a day late.