
Scary is easy to find. It presents itself with light and dark, odd angles, and looming images taken from below. A nest of bare branches becomes something sinister - a portal to the macabre. A dead tree and a storm sky takes on an ominous tone -
Sometimes, getting spooky photos is just telling a story without having to explain it - let people interpret...

Touring an abandoned prison, I walked up the stairs and as I was climbing, I stopped and took a picture of the window, but at an angle, making it disorienting.


Arms stuck up in the air in a corn field after the sunset. Tells a story of terror after dark in the corn rows.


A corn maze with the bright spotlight, casting a shadow.

Nightvision makes everything creepy and turns regular people into zombies.


Nightvision makes everything creepy and turns regular people into zombies.

Dinosaur park with sky behind and tree - looks like real Jurassic.

The road going into some barren woods - makes you wonder what's around the bend....


The road going into some barren woods - makes you wonder what's around the bend....

Dark sky and a silhouette of a steeple, leaves you with a feeling of foreboding. Back lighting and silhouettes always create mystery.


Silhouettes in graveyards are impressive, as well. With the sun behind a grave, it becomes a dark outline -


Black and white - cemeteries always look more foreboding if they look like Night of the Living Dead (btw, this was at Evans City Cemetery - where it was filmed).
Shadows always make interesting statements. The bars on a prison made a cross-shaped shadow over some Nazi hate speech.




This season, when you go about the cornfields, pumpkin patches, and autumn trees, think about how to get the most foreboding photographs. Sometimes, a simple change of perspective can make something imposing, like lying down and shooting up at the object or hitting it during a sunset and letting it silhouette....


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