Pumpkin Inferno! (^,,,^) Upper Canada Village (^,,,^)

Pumpkin Inferno

What a Halloween experience!
While haunted houses are a certain kind of fun, this festival gives you the opportunity to embrace Halloween in a much calmer relaxed fashion. An orange glimmer from the pumpkins creates an electroluminescent like feel, wrapping you in a warm glow of extremely creative and talented works of art. The drive to Upper Canada Village is quite easy, with signage spread along highway 401 and throughout the towns. A few things to remember on your trip.

1. A flash light
If you want to see the fish, which are monstrous! you will need a flash light or camera with good flash, I took both my Iphone and my Canon slr, the Iphone just couldn't get the job done.

2. Make sure to clear your memory card on your camera. There is A LOT of neat displays here, 100 pics of free space is just to little if you ask me.

To begin our journey click on the video below to add some Halloween themed music. 

choose between the original or a piano version.

This is Halloween, this is Halloween, HALLOWEEN! HALLOWEEN!

Your underworld journey awaits!

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 Having pumpkins carved into such dramatic pieces of art affixed over top of water is magical.
 

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There is a better shot of the moose a little further down.

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Pumpkin Inferno

 Beavers and dam with loons swimming about.

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While I love all animals, the loon is one of my favorites. When I think of wilderness in Canada, the loon and its call go hand in hand.

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 Honestly, this was pretty cool. I want one in front of my house!

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The detail in these native pieces is outstanding. 

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whats this, WHAS THIS!!

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 Ive realized I need to work on my pumpkins carving skills after this night.

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Phenomenal 

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Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

They had a giant crossword made out of pumpkins! I dont know what it is about crosswords, but they hook me in every time.

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

 Probably one of my better shots of the night. These are all raw tho, no photoshop done yet.

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Its seemed to be one of those events where it just kept going, which in this case made it all the more worth it/amazing. So often you pay for something and are left wanting more at the end. This was one of those great occasions where you kept asking yourself around every corner,

"Holy jeez, there's more?"

I spent around 2 hours here, lol. Yes, a lot of that time was because of taking photos, but if I think about it, with no photos and just walking around, it would probably be a good hour+.
Definitely worth the money in my opinion.

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

I like this shot, with a little cropping and sharpening I think it will come out nice.

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 There both great but the one on the left draws me in.

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 BOO!! 

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Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

*tips hat* ello good chap!

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 The canon fire effect looked spectacular. Stand up Canadian piece.

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♫ In this town of Halloween ♫. 

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Your waiter for the evening. In all seriousness tho, they do have some type of restaurant available ( only heard about it, never went in), along with a few hot chocolate/snack shacks and a main store selling everything from ground flour to witch brooms and old time memorabilia. I must say, the store is beautiful, nice and bright, full of machine's from yesteryear and lots of neat things.

BE FOREWARNED!

Children lose there minds here. There is so much neat stuff that everywhere you turn you'll hear kids asking. 

"Mom/Dad, can we buy something?"

I heard it asked a million times while there, lol

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This is what I was excited to see, the history of the ford motor car.

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Here's the restaurant. I should have gone in but it was getting late and I already knew I wasnt gona be home till 12'ish. Next time! 

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 They had an area with pumpkins done by local kids and this one I had to get a shot of.

( used to read Garfield when I was young )

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Was very impressed by this exhibit. All the time that must have gone into this. WOW.

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Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Beautiful!. With the constellation above, it almost sends the pic into an other worldly/spiritual vibe that can have you lost in its depth.

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

Pumpkin Inferno - Upper Canada Village

What a night!

So, after a million pictures later, I highly recommend a visit to this enchanting place.  The Pumpkin inferno night is something to not pass up. From what I understand it gets bigger every year, and with something like 6000 pumpkins lit up this year, I can only imagine they'll be setting a record soon.
Cant wait for next year!