Rediscovering Childhood Halloween

Who doesn't love Halloween? Ok, so the sticks in the mud with no creativity and no personality are the winners in the "I HATE HALLOWEEN" category. Sometimes I wonder what is wrong with people. Halloween has moved on from a celebration of the dead to a celebration of creativity and candy. How can someone say no to those two things? Personally, I use Halloween for one thing, a good time!
This year I used a bit of my creative muscle and bench pressed out a new costume idea meant to impress and undress. It was inspired by the quintessential horny older woman who loves younger men. Yes, I am talking about, "Cougars". I was having major trouble trying to figure out what I was going to dress up as for creativity/candy night and two cougars helped me to solidify my decision in a matter of minutes. This sounds easy, but how do you become something so sought after by the older women who loves younger men? How do you make a costume of something so vague?
This is not even a question to me, I simply make these things happen!
It really isn't a costume. It's a title and that is how I proceeded to capture this particular situation.

After I realized how to make this idea come to fruition, it was back to the reason for celebration.
I went to the Mark V. My favorite place to go. Mark V has kick ass employees and a good atmosphere. Oh.....and they display my artwork! So yea it's definitely my favorite place. I found lots of good people to hang out with and a great attitude for my photography. People in the Mark V know me and they know I almost always have a camera in hand. I would like to think they appreciate me having a camera because they know the photo will turn out great, but I can only feed my ego so much!

I had such a great time. You could literally feel the warmth of the spirits that night and see it light up the faces of your fellow Halloween out goers. The world is a hard working, fast paced, serious place. That night, however, I saw another side of people and I saw how life can be celebrated in many different ways. I love to see the personality of people expressed through their costumes and their appreciation of a great night represented in the smiles that adorned their faces.

To everyone who did not go out and celebrate Halloween.....YOU MISSED OUT!

Thanks to everyone who helped me enjoy a fun and creative night.
You can see more photo's at my flickr site if you're curious!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38767511@N05/?saved=1

Dan