With Halloween just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to appreciate one of the season’s most recognizable symbols: pumpkins! To celebrate, the World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Bimi® has shared 22 pumpkin photos from its archive, featuring work by photographers from around the world.

From colorful pumpkin patches and unusual varieties to artistic still lifes that look like paintings, these photos show just how many ways photographers can capture this autumn favorite. Some are all about the beauty of pumpkins, while others show what a little creativity can do with such a simple subject.

And if you’re a photographer yourself, you might want to check this out: entries are now open for the 2027 contest. Photographers of all ages and experience levels are welcome to enter. Explore the categories and submit your photos on the official website.

But for now, stick with us and scroll down to see these creative pumpkin shots, showcasing this autumn favorite in all kinds of unexpected ways!

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#1 Previously Published: Pumpkin By Marc Peverelli

#2 Food In The Field: Pumpkins By Andrew Newey

On a cold autumn morning, the sun gradually appears through the mist over a pumpkin patch in the New Forest National Park, England.

#3 Cake Award: Pumpkin Spice Cake By Celina Hruschka

#4 World Food Programme Food For Life: A Pumpkin With Purpose, Working To Help Mental Health Recovery By Ronni Allen

#5 Claire Aho Award For Women Photographers: Autumn Banquet By Hester Blankestijn

This classical still life shows the abundance of autumn. A table full of different food is visited by two tropical birds who are looking for some treats. This still life with birds is part of an ongoing series in the Dutch visual language of the Golden Age.

#6 Cream Of The Crop : Portrait Of A Pumpkin By Simone Da Lima

Pumpkin in all its simplicity and beauty.

#7 Cream Of The Crop : Palette Of Pumpkins By Sally Ann Stone

This colourful collection of pumpkins and squashes reveal some fantastic shapes and textures when photographed at the end of chilly autumn afternoon and in the perfect light of the day

#8 Food Infuencer: A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes By Jana CÁhová

#9 Food In The Field: Versailles Pumpkin B John E. Kelly

Pumpkin patch in The Queen's Hamlet, Versailles

#10 On The Phone In Support Of Action Against Hunger: Squash Blossom By Linda Repasky

In the field, squash blossoms and their curly tendrils have an undeniable charm.

#11 Cream Of The Crop: Pumpkin Treasure By Antonia Larrian

#12 Food Stylist Award: Autumnal Produce By Barbora Baretic

My favourite season in a frame.

#13 Food Stylist Award: Pumpkin Panorama By Aidan Sean Jinkens

Huge range of pumpkins for sale in New Orleans for Halloween.

#14 Food Stylist Award: Pumpkin Buns By Carolin Strothe

Soft pumpkin brioche buns, shaped like small pumpkins. To make the optical illusion perfect, they were photographed between real pumpkins.

#15 Award For Innovation: Miss Gourd-Geous By Daisy May Nixon

Looking glamorous with her handbag, Miss Gourd-Geous is poised to step out onto the catwalk.

#16 Food Influencer: Lumière D_automne By Deborah Trocchia

#17 Award For Innovation: Pumpkin Time By Květa Trčková

This photo was taken as a weekly photo challenge. I love creating still life and working with raw materials, fruit and vegetables. I like to combine ordinary things to create my alternative world where there is something mysterious. When it's pumpkin time, why take an ordinary photo? I like my imagination and since I can't paint much, I paint with my camera.

#18 Food Influencer: A Bowl Of Squash By Aimee Twigger

A bowl of autumn squash, Inspired by Vermeer. We had left them in a bowl by the window before a shoot and I loved the light and the colours.

#19 Cream Of The Crop: Portrait Of A Pumpkin By Seema Rose

#20 Cream Of The Crop: The Return Of The Pumpkin By Joanna Maclennan

The pumpkin that called to me - bargained for at the local market.

#21 Food In The Field: Displaying The Harvest In The Forde Abbey Kitchen Garden By Zachary Culpin

The kitchen garden harvest at Forde Abbey. Nine different varieties of almost 500 pumpkins, squashes and gourds picked and displayed at Forde Abbey on the Dorset/Somerset border. Forde Abbey, which is now open to the public, is a former Cistercian monastery dating back to the early 12th century.

#22 Claire Aho Award For Women Photographers: Gourd-Geous Gown By Emma Dunham

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