Another Look: Halloween Haunt 2006

Back in the mid 2000's we were still running our own website for sharing our annual yard haunt photos and we would downsize the photos to a much more internet friendly upload file size. Our earliest yard haunt photos from the late 90's were taken with film cameras and the photo lab printed results were less than stellar. And even when we switched to digital photography soon after, we made the mistake of setting the image resolution on the cameras to resolutions of 600 x 800 (or worse) for the sake of being able to upload them easily, which at the time wasn't all that detrimental due to the computer screen resolutions available back then. But in 2006, we did shoot the photos using the full camera resolution available to us, we just didn't post them in their original format. So we decided to take another fresh look at all those 2006 yard haunt photos and share some of the best ones in their original resolution. Note: There are links on the upper right side column of this Blogger page that will take you to all our old and current yard haunt photo albums.

Home Depot Haunted Pirate Ship

Home Depot has out on display a really impressive animated haunted pirate ship wreck decoration reminiscent of our 2006 DIY version. Considering we designed and built ours from scratch, we think ours still looked better. Definitely a one of kind display on our part!

More photos from our 2006 ghost pirates haunt can be seen here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmX79BBF

Halloween Pirate Theme Water Effect

Back in 2006 we did a pirate ghost ship theme for our Halloween yard haunt. We wanted to really give the impression of a ship wreck on the water on a moonlit night. The solution was to use a DJ water ripple light effect unit. The unit back then used a 250 watt halogen projector bulb and the bulbs are extremely temperamental to finger prints. We went through two bulbs just in testing and finally learned you have to wear gloves to handle the bulbs. Newer versions of the lighting effect are LED based. The final result was worth all the effort though, To see all the pictures from that year's haunt: Halloween 2006 Ghost Pirates Yard Haunt