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[OM] Re: Bocairent Moros y Cristianos fiesta 2008

Subject: [OM] Re: Bocairent Moros y Cristianos fiesta 2008
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:48:42 -0500
Thanks for sharing.  Very interesting.  Any idea of the significance of 
all the lovely young ladies and their costumes in the last shot?

Chuck Norcutt

Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Last Saturday, we were invited to a party in the small town of  
> Bocairent, about 100 km from Alicante, to attend a party celebrating  
> the beginning of the town's annual Moros y Cristianos fiesta, the  
> biggest event of the year in that small town of about 4500  
> inhabitants. The lady in the striped shirt performing a dance with a  
> sword is the hostess; the particular group we were with were Moros  
> (whether one is a Moro or Cristiano in these fiestas is something  
> that is passed on through generations).
> 
> The pics are really just party pictures, and I made the gallery  
> mainly for the people involved, but thought I might show them to a  
> broader audience as well:
> 
> http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4301077
> 
> All taken with the E3, with IS turned on, nominally at ISO 800 but  
> given the amount of exposure correction I had to do in Lightroom, I  
> was really shooting at ISO 1600. The IS was somewhat useful when  
> people were not moving, but overall I think it is suited mostly to  
> photographing buildings at night, not people having a good time.
> 
> Nathan
> 
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