PICS: Halloween 2020: Once in a Blue Moon in New Orleans

Once in a Blue Moon, Halloween 2020 began with trick-or-treating for the kids with a specially designed social-distance tube to deliver candy by Mark Romig, the voice of the Saints, in the Fontainebleau neighborhood of New Orleans. Photo by Matthew Hinton

PICS: Halloween 2020: Once in a Blue Moon in New Orleans

Costumes were seen from the French Quarter to the socially distanced neighborhood streets, where there were even a few trick-or-treaters. Here's a look at Halloween 2020 in New Orleans.

by Matthew Hinton | November 1, 2020

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As if 2020 wasn’t interesting enough, Halloween night feel on the same evening as a “Blue Moon.” Costumes were seen from the French Quarter to the socially distanced neighborhood streets, where there were even a few trick-or-treaters. Here’s a look at Halloween 2020 in New Orleans.

Matthew Hinton

Matthew Hinton is a New Orleans area freelance photographer whose work has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism Awards in 2014 and 2016, and by numerous awards from the Press Club of New Orleans, including the Hal Ledet President's Print Photography Award, the highest honor the Press Club can bestow upon a photographer.
Matthew Hinton has previously been a staff photographer at both of the daily newspapers in New Orleans. His work has appeared nationally and internationally through freelance work with the Associated Press and AFP, Agence France-Presse.