Thursday, June 16, 2011

Pan Pacific Festival Parade - 6/12/2011

Final day of festival is the parade. This year the parade seem shorter than previous year since it ended just before sunset and I didn't have to even use a flash. This year, I used a 100mm and practiced my newly discovered technique.
I saw the tuba player pass by and notice the really cool reflection on his shiny instrument.

Of course in every parade, there will be a pageant queen.
There were these big hair kimono customed women.She was really cute, but some lady got right in front of me w/ her iphone..There were students from a Sendai School.The finale of the parade are these lanterns. They stopped in front of us and then heeve-ho and lifted this huge float.
The drummer drummed on the float.
I took two shots then stitched them together to get the entire float.
Then it was all over.

2 comments:

Erick said...

Cool tuba reflection shot, very creative. I like the big hair lady, must be heavy. Nice focus with your new technique.

jalna said...

Sooooo cool da tuba!!I like the big-hair lady too. But best of all I like the vertically stitched photo. Good idea!!