Halloween 2008

Pictures

We took this year's Halloween as an opportunity to hit the streets with cameras on hand. We chose Photo-Reporter costumes to support the cameras hanging from our necks. It also helped that we were running around with digital Leicas that to many people look like old cameras. Who knows, maybe people thought we were just pretending to take pictures.

We started our photo safari on Hennepin. We stopped for a few pictures at Barfly, with people hanging outside in the smokers area. Then we moved on to First Avenue, which turned out to be a gold mine for picture taking. As usual, there were hundreds of people lining up the street waiting to get in to the club. We saw and took pictures of everyone. There were robots and vampires, boob-twins and wasps, policewomen and Mexicans with big sombreros, brides and the devil. A few other photographers walked up and down shooting. Actually I could tell that people wanted to have their picture taken. It was almost like they felt bad if you didn't take their picture. Some posed specifically for the camera.

After a while we took off and walked down Hennepin. We were also a bit cold, so we stopped at Solera for wine and food. The kitchen was closed, so we ended up drinking a couple of glasses of red wine. A few people in costume floated in from the Saloon. I guess Solera had something going up on the roof terrace, but we decided to skip that.