It is all about the light

I have a small collection of Halloween-themed photographs, and this year again I celebrate Halloween with an old image featuring the iconic Itaipava Castle (see details below). Locals had told me that it becomes a haunted around this time of the year in the full moon. On a gloomy October evening of 2016, when I was spending time with family in Itaipava, I headed down to the valley and photographed the castle right when the fog was starting to thicken, and right before the spooky creatures began walking around.

The castle

Not far from “the house” in Brazil, down in the valley, sits the iconic Itaipava Castle. Itaipava is a small neighborhood in the city of Petrópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro. Petrópolis is where the Portuguese Royal family spent their summers when Brazil was a monarchy. High in the mountains, Petrópolis offers cooler temperatures.

The castle was originally built in 1920. It was designed by Lucio Costa, the same architect who planned the city Brasília (capital of Brazil) a few decades later. Baron J. Smith de Vasconcellos orchestrated the construction of the castle, which was undertaken by twenty familie ofs brought from Europe for that purpose.

Built with stones and other materials also brought from Europe, the castle is famous for its renascence style, original materials, and for being the only medieval castle in the Americas.

The castle now is a privately-owned hotel and restaurant, and events venue. Sometimes, when I am in Brazil, I go there with my family for food and beer. The service is awesome and the view is pleasant. 

I have a larger, print version of the featured image for sale on my Pixels website, along with a few other Halloween compositions. If you are interested, click here.

And below is a different interpretation on the same theme, from a photo I took about one year later in 2017. Although I also like this version, I did manage to lose the original and the small jpg I was left with is too small to print. A few bats flying would certainly complement this composition below.

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