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I was fortunate to be able to enjoy some awesome live music from Coleman Hell from my balcony today!
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Textur: Festlichkeit (zur freien Verfügung) über einen Link zurück würde ich mich freuen
Emley Village Christmas Tree Lights switch on.....Friday 9th December, 2016.
This year our small rural village of Emley in West Yorkshire raised funds to purchase a lovely big Christmas Tree for our village. After all the hard work of raising the funds the organisers went the extra mile and staged a proper light switch on ! Including a Town Crier, Santa who arrived in a trailer behind a tractor illuminated with lights, even the Mayor and Mayoress were in attendance. Such a shame that the rain clouds had to come over...but a few photos that I managed to snap whilst trying not to get too wet !
El espectáculo piromusical de la pirotécnia Peñarroja fundió luz, fuego y música en las fiestas fundacionales de Castellón de la Plana en L'Encesa.
The pyromusical show of the Peñarroja pyrotechnics fused light, fire and music at the founding festivities of Castellón de la Plana in L'Encesa.
Festes de La Magdalena 2024
Festes de La Llum
Castelló de La Plana (Comunitat Valenciana/ Spain)
Picture of the day the Big Week of San Sebastian started somewhat a week ago.
www.safecreative.org/work/1708213330530-starting-festivities
Metra 9513, an unofficial holiday train run bound for Aurora, makes one of their few stops at Downers Grove with METX 211 and 183 for power.
The best time to go to Cebu, The Philippines is on the 3rd Sunday on the month of January to capture this beautiful festival of colors - Sinulog!
More photos can be seen when you click on this photo.
SOOC except resizing (no crop) and minor contrast adjustment.
One shot SOOC.
Want more? See my new set, "Drawing with Light – III:"
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and my previous kinetic sets, "Drawing with Light:"
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and "Drawing with Light – II:"
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Kinetic: Relating to, caused by, or producing motion.
These are called “Kinetic” photographs because there is motion, energy, and movement involved, specifically my and the camera’s movements.
I choose a light source and/or subject, set my camera for a long exposure (typically around 4 seconds), focus on my subject and push the shutter button. When the shutter opens I move the camera around with my hands...large, sweeping, dramatic movements. And then I will literally throw the camera several feet up into the air, most times imparting a spinning or whirling motion to it as I hurl it upward. I may throw the camera several times and also utilize hand-held motion several times in one photo. None of these are Photoshopped, layered, or a composite photo...what you see occurs in one shot, one take.
Aren’t I afraid that I will drop and break my camera? For regular followers of my photostream and this series you will know that I have already done so. This little camera has been dropped many times, and broken once when dropped on concrete outside. It still functions...not so well for regular photographs, but superbly for more kinetic work.
To read more about Kinetic Photography click the Wikipedia link below:
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Albeit supremely risky this is one of my favorite ways to produce abstract photographs.
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This photograph comes from the same provenance as the "Women of the Islands" picture that I had posted some days ago. Beside many people wearing a turban, I can make out three men wearing something like a tuiga headdress. So, can this be Samoa? Any experts out there?
Unidentified photographer.
San Juan Diego unfolds his tilma before the Bishop, and then shows the image to the people at the start of the Mass.
Created for "Treat This" challenge No. 23
found in the Kreative People group, on front page
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took part in the festivities marking the 9th anniversary of the National Guard of Ukraine and the graduation of officers of the National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine and the Kyiv Institute of the National Guard of Ukraine.
On Friday, 334 officers graduated, including 263 graduates of the NGU National Academy and 71 graduates of the NGU Kyiv Institute. 11 officers graduated from universities with a gold medal, 22 have the status of combatants.
"Today we add 334 more reasons to our victory, which the Ukrainians are bringing closer with all their might - 334 warriors of the National Guard of Ukraine who have completed their training and are joining the Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine. 334 officers who, under any circumstances, have to increase the glory of Ukraine, protect the freedom of Ukraine, take care of Ukrainian men and women," the Head of State said in his speech.
The President emphasized that Ukraine's victory will be the sum of the resilience, courage and efficiency of all those fighting for our country.
"Protecting the honor of Ukraine, our Defense and Security Forces, the National Guard of Ukraine everywhere is your path, the path of Ukrainian officers. I believe that you will be able to walk this path with dignity," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
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The feast of St.Alphio (the festivities are in honor of the three holy martyrs brothers Alfio, Filadelfo and Cirino) are the most important religious festival in the city of Lentini (Sicily - Italy)
Historically, the three brothers were arrested and later executed for professing the Christian religion using their noble influence, as their parents had previously done, Vitale and Beatrice; after having undergone several trials throughout the central-southern territory of Italy, since nobody wanted to condemn them with a final sentence as belonging to one of the most important families of the empire, the three Saints, disembarked in Messina, suffered a further trial in Taormina, they stopped at Trecastagni and only at the end, on 3 September, they arrived in Lentini under the jurisdiction of King Tartullo, and in Lentini they were slaughtered.
The celebrations for the three Holy Martyrs are held in that of Lentini every year, on 9-10 and 11 May (and on 2 September, the date of the return of the sacred relics of the three brothers in the city, in 1517). St.Alphio is the Patron Saint of Lentini, and is considered the Holy Protector of the deaf-mutes.
The festivities begin on the evening of May 9, when the relic is carried in procession through the streets of the city. At one o'clock in the night we see the race by "nuri" ("nuri" is the dialectal voice of the so-called "nudes"), they are barefoot and half-naked devotees, dressed only in a short white shorts, also covered with a red band that surrounds the chest, holding with your right hand a bouquet of flowers (or on the shoulders a candle), while the left hand is carried behind the back, to evoke the chains that bound the three brothers (it is not to discard the hypothesis that this position of the left hand may be linked to the belief of medieval origin, that this hand was considered "impure" as it was considered at the time "the hand of the devil"); the "nuri" go during the night, along an ancient path called "saint route"; the younger men proceed with a fast race (sometimes they retrace the holy route several times), raising loudly in the middle of the night praises towards the three Holy Martyrs. The evening and night of the 9th, therefore, is dedicated to the passion that recalls martyrdom; the next day is that of the triumph: at 10 am, the silver float (the so-called "vara") leaves the Mother Church to be carried in procession through the streets of the city. St.Alphio, seated on his silver armchair, donated in the last century by Senator Luigi Beneventano, is taken out of the churchyard, escorted by the knights of the Holy Sepulcher, all the deputation, the pious devotees and canons. The festivities conclude at dawn on 11 morning, when St.Alphio returns to the Church and the last firecrackers burst.
La festa di sant'Alfio (i festeggiamenti sono in onore dei tre fratelli santi martiri Alfio, Filadelfo e Cirino) sono la più importante festa religiosa della città di Lentini (Sicilia).
Storicamente, i tre fratelli vennero arrestati ed in seguito giustiziati per aver professato la religione cristiana utilizzando la loro influenza nobile, come avevano fatto in precedenza i loro genitori, Vitale e Beatrice; dopo aver subito parecchi processi per tutto il territorio centro-meridionale d'Italia,, visto che nessuno voleva condannarli con una sentenza definitiva in quanto appartenenti ad una delle famiglie più importanti dell’impero, i tre Santi, sbarcarono a Messina, subirono un ulteriore processo a Taormina, si fermarono a Trecastagni e solo alla fine, il 3 settembre, arrivarono a Lentini sotto la giurisdizione di Re Tartullo, enel paese di Lentini furono trucidati.
Le celebrazioni per i tre Santi Martiri si svolgono in quel di Lentini tutti gli anni, il 9-10 ed 11 maggio (e il 2 settembre, data che ricorre il rientro delle sacre reliquie dei tre fratelli in città, nel 1517). Sant'Alfio è il Santo Patrono di Lentini, ed è considerato il Santo Protettore dei sordo-muti.
I festeggiamenti cominciano la sera del 9 maggio, quando la reliquia viene portata in processione per le vie della città. All'una di notte si assiste alla corsa dei "nuri" (voce dialettale dei cosiddetti "nudi"), sono devoti scalzi e seminudi, vestiti solo di un pantaloncino corto di colore bianco, ricoperti anche di una fascia rossa che cinge il torace, impugnando con la mano destra un mazzo di fiori (o sulle spalle un cero), mentre la mano sinistra è portata dietro la schiena, per rievocare le catene che legavano i tre fratelli (non è da scartare l'ipotesi che tale posizione della mano sinistra possa essere legata alla credenza di origine medioevale, che tale mano era considerata "impura" in quanto considerata all'epoca "la mano del diavolo"); i "nuri" percorrono, nella stessa notte tra il 9 e il 10, un antichissimo percorso chiamato "giro santo"; gli uomini più giovani procedono con una corsa veloce (a volte ripercorrono più volte il giro santo), elevando ad alta voce nel cuore della notte lodi verso i tre Santi Martiri. La serata e la notte del 9, perciò, è dedicata alla passione che ricorda il martirio; il giorno successivo è quello del trionfo: alle ore 10 del mattino, il fercolo d'argento (la cosiddetta vara) esce dalla Chiesa Madre per essere portato in processione per le vie della città, osannato dalla folla al grido di "prima Diu e poi li Santi, e viva i Mattri Santi". Sant'Alfio, seduto sulla sua poltrona d'argento, donata nel secolo scorso dal senatore Luigi Beneventano, viene portato fuori dal sagrato, scortato dai cavalieri del Santo Sepolcro con il mantello bianco crociato di rosso, tutta la deputazione, i devoti spingitori ed i canonici . I festeggiamenti si concludono all'alba dell'11 mattina, quando Sant'Alfio rientra in Chiesa e scoppiano gli ultimi mortaretti.
The Color Run
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Photo: Ian Anderson/Terry Johnston Photography
Process: Terry Johnston
beginning of the year and still more festivities. they seem to be staff of a popular public hospital
While running a few errands in Manhattan on the last day of 2022, I happened past this restaurant where the staff were preparing for the evening's scheduled festivity.
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Saturday was a fine day to check out Christkindlmarket, even though the rest of Chicago seemed to have the same idea. It was very crowded. I did end up buying a souvenir mug that I had some coffee out of, that day.
www.christkindlmarket.com/chicago/
Downtown, The Loop, Chicago, Illinois.
Saturday, December 15, 2018.