This year’s zombie walk in Lethbridge was a huge success! We had a fantastic turnout, decent weather, and super creative costumes as always. The walk took around two hours this year, and we only lost a few of the undead along the way. While some living citizens pretended they didn’t see us, a few played along by parking near us and screaming in their cars, and a few local business employees could be seen mouthing, “OH MY GOD,” through the window as we walked by.

Cassandra did my makeup again; thanks, Cassandra!!

Cassandra and her niece

Even the little zombies came out this year

The Lethbridge Photography Club followed us to document the walk

Last but not least, I need to show my zombie likeness!
Since I was too cold last year to actually do the walk, I incorprated warm clothing into my wardrobe this year to be a frozen zombie.

It is finally time for another zombie pinup! This was the first one that made use of two lovely undead models: Karla, my first ever zombie, and Beth, whom I had met at the zombie walk this last year. We went with a bar wench theme, and Jesse from The Slice graciously donated the space for a couple hours that afternoon for us to cover the place in fake blood. Also a big thank you to Sarah who made their skin look delightfully gross, even though her proper stage makeup was out of town!

Models: Beth & Karla
Makeup: Sarah Christensen
Location: The Slice

Check out the rest…

This October was Lethbridge’s 3rd Annual Zombie Walk, and we had a great turnout despite the cold. Many people brought along their little zombies this year, so our efforts to stress it was a family event were definitely not in vain! This may be surprising since I love photographing zombies, but I’m not a big fan of zombie movies – I’ve only seen several! I just thrive on photographing unusual things, and zombies are so full of textures and character and a hunger for brains…

Cassandra did my makeup again this year. I met her at the first zombie walk because she had my favorite makeup, and we have become great friends (and her one of my favorite models) since then! When she answered her door this year, I was a little scared to come in…

Jeremy carved his face piece out of a full Styrofoam skull from Walmart, and also make Cassandra’s “guts” you see above. These two are missing their calling by not being in movie or stage makeup!

The parents taught their little zombies to attack anyone who wasn’t a zombie. I think they all got their daily servings of brains, which are really important for growing zombies.

This baby’s parents exclaimed, “Ah, zombies!” and thrust the stroller at us. This photo is misleading, because most of the time she was giggling like crazy when the zombies came at her!

Lethbridge’s The Phantom Creeps started out the after party at Slice.

John from the Brains and his wife Danielle working the merch table – they are one of my favorite couples. I have been online friends with Danielle for a very long time, but since she lives in Montreal and rarely tours with the guys, this was the first time I got to meet her!

The Grave Mistakes

We were so lucky to have the Brains play for us a third year in a row!

Even though I was there taking photos, I had to dress up too! I went as Zombie Gaga, since I’m a little obsessed with Lady Gaga these days! You will only ever see me as a blonde if I have this wig on…
(makeup by Cassandra, photos by Dino)

We also got media coverage from CityTV:

It’s been a while, but here is my first zombie pinup of the year! Between the great locations, Starsha’s excellent modeling, and not having done one in a while, it was really hard to narrow these photos down!

Starsha has several pet cockroaches, and we made use of them for the last portion of the shoot. They are actually pretty laid back creepy crawlies, but when we would put them on her they would make a run for it. We ended up having to only use one so they didn’t get lost in the field (because that would just suck for EVERYONE), and I multiplied it afterward. If you are absolutely terrified of cockroaches, it is the last photo, so you are safe to scroll through the 16 that come before it.

When I first arranged this shoot with Starsha, Hope Litwin had recently done a little personal assignment, Project: Norma Jean, recreating Marilyn Monroe’s ballerina photo. I found out Starsha had an orange tu-tu, so Project: Zomba Jean was born…

This is the photo Hope was working with.

And Zomba Jean:

Not wanting to stop there, I found another Monroe photo I wanted to work with…

And this one really needs no introduction.

The constant wind in Lethbridge made this recreation easy!

The grace of a zombie

This was such an amazing location that I was a little sad Starsha was covered in so much makeup and we couldn’t do a “normal” shoot at the same time!

Okay, I warned you! …….

If you’ve wondered how the photos start out, I’ve made a before and after. The first is straight out of the camera (terribly underexposed!) and the later is the result of Lightroom almost exlusively.

If you have some free time, dig around the site… there are some really cool photos on there! It’s addictive like Flickr!

(After March, you should be able to find my gallery from this link.)

Mark over at thebigcritique.com did a review of the video game Left 4 Dead, and featured one of my photos of the lovely undead Meaghan :)

You can read his review here, and see the “magazine” she is featured on.