The Witch
October 22nd – The Witch was not a terribly difficult picture to shoot, but it took us a long time to decide how to shoot it. When I was a youngster, my parents felt it appropriate to take me trick-or-treating as a witch with a wig. So many neighbors remarked about how cute a girl I was that we wanted to see for ourselves if Charlie could pull it off. I think we can all agree that he could just as easily win a cute-little-girl-in-a-witch-costume contest. We always knew we’d be incorporating the cauldron, as it was a wedding gift from our good friends Kacie and Brett. We had borrowed their cauldron every Halloween for five years, so they decided it was time we had our own. At first I wanted to get dry ice and put it inside with a green light to make it look like a stew. Once we bought the fog machine, it seemed like a no-brainer to just use that. We tried a variety of different poses. In some he’s stirring the cauldron, in other he’s holding a broom. Ultimately a photo like this is kind of determined by the shape and intensity of the fog, and this shot had the best one by far.