Enjoying the art of pumpkin carving
Fancy or simple people and animals alike enjoy carved pumpkins.
- Pumpkin carver Hugh McCahon poses with carved pumpkins featuring the likeness of scientist Albert Einstein and singer Lady Gaga as Madame Tussauds New York kicks off a special Halloween weekend featuring a live pumpkin carving performance on October 22, 2013 in New York City. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
- Children from the Garden of Dreams Foundation watch pumpkin carver Hugh McCahon carve a pumpkin in the likeness of singer Lady Gaga as Madame Tussauds New York kicks off a special Halloween weekend featuring a live pumpkin carving performance on October 22, 2013 in New York City. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
- Pumpkins carved in the likeness of U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are lit at Madame Tussauds in New York, October 22, 2013. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters photo)
- A pumpkin representing US President Barack Obama is on display at Madame Tussauds ahead of Halloween in New York on October 22, 2013. (/Emmanuel Dunand/Getty Images)
- Pumpkins representing US singer Lady Gaga (Right) and scientist Albert Einstein are on display in front of their wax figures at Madame Tussauds ahead of Halloween in New York on October 22, 2013. (Emmanuel Dunand/Getty Images)
- Pumpkin carver Hugh McMahon poses with the Albert Einstein pumpkin that he carved at Madame Tussauds in New York, October 22, 2013. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters photo)
- An Albert Einstein pumpkin is pictured at Madame Tussauds in New York, October 22, 2013. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters photo)
- Pumpkin carver Hugh McCahon carves a pumpkin in the likeness of US singer Lady Gaga in front of her wax figure at Madame Tussauds in New York on October 22, 2013. (Emmanuel Dunand/Getty Images)
- Pumpkin carver Hugh McCahon carves a pumpkin in the likeness of US singer Lady Gaga in front of her wax figure at Madame Tussauds in New York on October 22, 2013. (Emmanuel Dunand/Getty Images)
- A girl is seen through one of the thousands of carved pumpkins on display at the Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival in Highwood, Illinois, October 18, 2013. Organizers are trying to set the Guinness Book of World Records for the most lit jack-o’-lanterns on display. (Jim Young/Reuters photo)
- A volunteer lights a carved pumpkin, one of the thousands of carved pumpkins on display, at the Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival in Highwood, Illinois, October 18, 2013. Organizers are trying to set the Guinness Book of World Records for the most lit jack-o’-lanterns on display. (Jim Young/Reuters photo)
- A woman holds a candle next to a rack of carved pumpkins on display at the Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival in Highwood, Illinois, October 18, 2013. Organizers are trying to set the Guinness Book of World Records for the most lit jack-o’-lanterns on display. (Jim Young/Reuters photo)
- Two divers sculpt jack-o-lanterns during the Underwater Pumpkin Carving contest on October 19, 2013 in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Key Largo. About 30 contestants competed in the offbeat event organized by the Amoray Dive Resort. (Bob Care/Getty Images)
- A polar bear called Uslada eats a carved pumpkin during a Halloween celebration at the zoo in St. Petersburg, October 26, 2013. (Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters photo)
- Chimpanzee Toto plays with a Halloween pumpkin in its enclosure in the zoo in Hanover, northern Germany, on October 16, 2013. (Holger Hollemann/Getty Images)
- Meerkats inspect a pumpkin carved in Halloween design and filled with flour worms and straw on September 24, 2013 at the zoo in Leipzig, eastern Germany. Suited to the upcoming Halloween holiday, the animals’ enclosure is decorated with pumpkins and delights meerkats and visitors. (Waltraud Grubitzsch/Getty Images)
- A 7-year-old raven called Grisha sits on a carved pumpkin during a Halloween celebration at the zoo in St. Petersburg, October 26, 2013. (Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters photo)