Carving the pumkins: the results

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Mine, Kouryou-chan's, Yamaraashi-chan's

So, this is what the pumpkins looked like after all the effort. Mine was a lot of work, but it really turned out well. Kouryou-chan was devastated when she broke the tail off hers, but I think it looks just fine. And Yamaraashi-chan's really is as spooky as she'd hoped.

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Thanks! I had to press Yamaraashi-chan to finish the cleanup on hers. She was going to leave it with lots of fiber hanging around, but I showed her how I was cleaning the eyes around mine to let more light through and she got it. Kouryou-chan's was pretty much good from her ending.

It was also some interesting photography work. I set the Gorillapod on a chair in the kitchen and shot through the archway into the dining room; it was one of the better (and darker) spots in the house. Since I used a tea candle and a four-second exposure, I had to set the camera for "three photos, ten seconds apart, after an initial ten second delay," and then walk away. That gave the camera time to restabilize after each frame. It worked very nicely.