Halloween Portrait Idea

by Ron
(New York)

It was a long time ago, about 1975. Digital Photography was not around. My kids were less than 5 years old. We decide to take pictures at our local farm market. My wife was a fashion consultant, so she came up with the idea for the portrait clothing.

We dressed in jeans and brown shirts and posed our family portrait on top of a small pile of pumpkins. The sun was setting and we were washed with reddish light from the glowing sun. The idea was to get the kids in a good mood by letting them climb on tops of the pumpkins.

One of the workers came over to us and yelled at us not to climb on the pumpkin pile. Somehow my wife charmed him and got him to take the picture of our family using my Minolta XD-11 camera. It is one of my favorite photos. I will try to get my daughter to scan it and I'll upload it so you can see it. It is one my favorite photos of all time.