Pan Pacific Festival Parade - 6/9/2013

The Pan Pacific Parade commences the festival each year. This year, the parade was shorter than the previous years but it still had many lively and colorful costumed performers from different countries. This year, I wanted to travel light so I used my lightest lens, the 50mm. Although it has the F1.4 for low light later, on the other hand, since it didn't have zoom, so what I see is what I got.  Thus, I got the chance to practice trying to frame the shots.  We found a good spot w/o anyone blocking us, but as the sun was setting, I got a lot of flare from the sunlight which really threw off the metering.  I tried my best to rescue the signage shot in PSE.

I practiced being patient by waiting until the people came into my frame and that's pretty tough.

I think the most predominant color of this parade was red.

And.. Purple..

OK... I didn't know Texas was part of the Pan Pacific, but it's nice they were able to come to Hawaii to participate in a parade and they were dressed in Aloha attire too.

Sometimes I got lucky when they stop to perform in front of us so I got several shots.

As the sun was gettng lower, the trees blocked the direct light and I got better lighting.  These guys were great and they posed for me.

This shot came out really cool as the light came thru the trees at just the right time.

And the finale, the giant float.. these guys looked exhausted..

I caught the back of the giant float.  I did have to crop to get a better closeup.

On the walk back, I spotted this Mango tree, can you imagine, in the middle of Waikiki..full of mangoes so I had to take a shot.