Heaven Hill

A pumpkin farm and carnival at sunrise, an hour before it opens. Come out of the cornfield and you find the residents are already up. Nobody is surprised. That's the rule.

Plates

Six images from before opening

A man in a brown cowboy hat and tan canvas jacket steps out of a tall cornfield onto a gravel farm road under a pink dawn sky

Out of the corn

“The gates don't open for an hour.”

A skeleton driving a red Farmall tractor hauling a wooden wagon of pumpkins, exhaust puffing, at sunrise

The tractor

III

Tickets

“One, please.”

Seen from the ground, the man sits in a Ferris wheel gondola beside a grey long-necked dinosaur against a sunrise sky

The Ferris wheel

The barn

An old white pickup truck pulls up on the gravel in front of a Ferris wheel and a red slide, brake lights on

Opening time

“Back to your places.”

How it was made

Before anyone arrived

Every scene starts from my own photographs, taken on the ground and by drone that morning, including the farm from above in the first shot. The skeletons, the dinosaurs, the scarecrow and the witch are all really there; they are the farm's own decorations. What they get up to before opening is made with AI, then chosen and edited by hand.

The place is real: a pumpkin farm and carnival in Vernon, New Jersey, photographed in the hour before it opened on a Saturday in October. The tractor is from a farm up the road. It is a fiction and an imagining, from a real place.

Photographs, story & edit — Erik, Skypanther Studios

Images — GPT Image 2.5 via Higgsfield

Motion — Kling 3.0 via Higgsfield

Score & sound — ElevenLabs

Edit — assembled by hand

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