{"id":1544,"date":"2011-10-19T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2011-10-19T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T22:04:10","slug":"pumpkins-in-half-moon-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/pumpkins-in-half-moon-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkins in Half Moon Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I unabashedly love Halloween. Not only is fall one of the best times of the year for the Bay Area (warm weather, wonderful golden light), I love the spooky evenings, the costumes, and I always take a trip to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aratapumpkinfarm.com\/\"> Arata&#8217;s Pumpkin Farm<\/a> in Half Moon Bay to pick up some decorative gourds. Arata&#8217;s is a wonderfully weird place to visit. This year their theme seems to be &#8216;Egypt&#8217; and no, I&#8217;ve got no idea what that has to do with Halloween. There&#8217;s a petting zoo, pony rides, and a terrific hay maze you should plan on getting lost in.<\/p>\n<p>Fall is also a really great time to start thinking about updating your family portraits. It&#8217;s still nice enough outside to photograph outdoors, and you can use the images for a holiday card. Drop a line if you&#8217;ve been thinking about a family photo session, there&#8217;s still plenty time before the winter colds sets in.<\/p>\n<p>This year one of my cousins was visiting San Francisco for the first time with a few of her friends, so I dragged them down the peninsula to enjoy the day with me.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/swf\/CSlideShow.swf?feedSRC=http%3A\/\/tristancrane.photoshelter.com\/gallery\/Pumpkins-2011\/G0000Zx_6442idd8%3Ffeed%3Djson\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#AAAAAA\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"target=_self&#038;f_l=t&#038;f_fscr=t&#038;f_tb=f&#038;f_bb=t&#038;f_bbl=f&#038;f_fss=f&#038;f_2up=t&#038;f_crp=t&#038;f_wm=t&#038;f_s2f=t&#038;f_emb=t&#038;f_cap=f&#038;f_sln=t&#038;imgT=f&#038;cred=f&#038;trans=xfade&#038;f_link=t&#038;f_smooth=f&#038;f_mtrx=t&#038;tbs=5000&#038;f_ap=t&#038;f_up=f&#038;btype=old&#038;bcolor=%23CCCCCC\"><\/param><!--[if !IE]><!--><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/swf\/CSlideShow.swf?feedSRC=http%3A\/\/tristancrane.photoshelter.com\/gallery\/Pumpkins-2011\/G0000Zx_6442idd8%3Ffeed%3Djson\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" ><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#AAAAAA\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"target=_self&#038;f_l=t&#038;f_fscr=t&#038;f_tb=f&#038;f_bb=t&#038;f_bbl=f&#038;f_fss=f&#038;f_2up=t&#038;f_crp=t&#038;f_wm=t&#038;f_s2f=t&#038;f_emb=t&#038;f_cap=f&#038;f_sln=t&#038;imgT=f&#038;cred=f&#038;trans=xfade&#038;f_link=t&#038;f_smooth=f&#038;f_mtrx=t&#038;tbs=5000&#038;f_ap=t&#038;f_up=f&#038;btype=old&#038;bcolor=%23CCCCCC\"><\/param><!--<![endif]--><a href=\"http:\/\/tristancrane.photoshelter.com\/gallery\/Pumpkins-2011\/G0000Zx_6442idd8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/gal-kimg-get\/G0000Zx_6442idd8\/s\/900\/675\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><!--[if !IE]><!--><\/object><!--<![endif]--><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tristancrane.photoshelter.com\/gallery\/Pumpkins-2011\/G0000Zx_6442idd8\">Pumpkins 2011<\/a> &#8211; Images by <a href=\"http:\/\/tristancrane.photoshelter.com\">Tristan Crane<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I unabashedly love Halloween. Not only is fall one of the best times of the year for the Bay Area (warm weather, wonderful golden light), I love the spooky evenings, the costumes, and I always take a trip to Arata&#8217;s Pumpkin Farm in Half Moon Bay to pick up some decorative gourds. Arata&#8217;s is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/pumpkins-in-half-moon-bay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pumpkins in Half Moon Bay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[203,400,401,40,402],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco-2","tag-family-portraits-2","tag-half-moon-bay","tag-pumpkins","tag-san-francisco-photographer","tag-seasonal-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}