Grim Reaper And Dead End Cemeteries

Happy Hallowe'en! I missed the annual zombie walk here, which has been my usual way to mark the occasion, so I've been busy photographing other subjects. I'll likely put one or two shots from previous zombie walks up at the Ottawa Daily Photo page on Facebook. This first one is a display in the window of a dry cleaner and tailor shop in the downtown core.

This costume can be found in a comic book shop downtown, as is also the case with the shot that follows it.

These two window displays are from a shop in the Glebe that specializes in greeting cards.

While this one, up the street in the Glebe, is the front window of a hardware store.

This jack o'lantern was outside a house across from the Museum of Nature.

I came across a large Hallowe'en display at City Hall on the weekend; note the large lion sculpture in the background outside that some of you may remember. This animatronic trio started cackling after I took my first shot; it must have been a motion detector. Either that or City Hall is haunted.

Actually, the Heritage Building, which is linked to this newer wing and is therefore part of City Hall... that is haunted.

These decorations were inside an art supply shop downtown.

These last two shots have more of an adults only take to them. This poster was at a club a short walk south of the art store.

And this is one of the storefront windows in Wicked Wanda's, a shop that specializes in fetish items and other adult novelties.

Not Exactly Your Grandmother's Christmas Carol

Wicked Wanda's is an adult emporium in Ottawa, catering to the kinky and erotic side of life. The store display windows lean towards the fetish side of things, and have a wonderfully naughty and twisted sense of humour to them. While the prudish might gasp in shock, and Sister Mary Margaret might tut-tut in disapproval (whilst secretly being curious), the shop carries on. 

This time of year, they have several dioramas in one window, using Barbie dolls in very creative ways in a series based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Photographing them was a bit of a challenge; I ended up reflected in the glass. 

Christmas Past is conventional, reflecting the literary roots of the story...

But Christmas Present is not at all conventional, reflecting the store inside...

And Christmas Future turns that up a notch. Barbie gets lucky indeed. So does Ken (assuming that is supposed to be Ken). Though seriously, the dude's missing some vital pieces to his anatomy...