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Chinese New Years is always a happy time for the kids. All they know is they get red envelopes filled with money. How can you go wrong with that?
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Strobist:
Octa camera left, bare speedlites behind to the left and right.
Chinese New Years is always a happy time for the kids. All they know is they get red envelopes filled with money. How can you go wrong with that?
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Strobist:
Octa camera left, bare speedlites behind to the left and right.
Happy Lunar New Year everyone! Some scenes from a Lunar New Year family gathering in Vietnam. Lunar New Year is a huge holiday in many parts of Asia, and it combines elements of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. People take up to 2 weeks off and most businesses are closed durimg this holiday. People often go back to their hometowns and spend the new year with their families. On new years eve it's very traditional for the older generation to give red envelopes filled with money to the younger generation along with words of blessing, wishes, and praise, while the younger generation serves them tea and express words of gratitude and thanksgiving.
I miss being a kid during this time of the year. The family, the friends, the food, the games, the fireworks, and of course, getting the red envelopes! Happy Chinese New Year!
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An annual tradition that's very familiar to those with Chinese or Vietnamese heritage during the Lunar New Year. Giving red envelopes (known as "hongbao" in Mandarin and "bao li xi" in Vietnamese), during the Lunar New Year is a time honored tradition. The ritual typically begins with the younger family members standing up and saying a few words of gratitude and well wishes to the parents or older generation. Sometimes tea is served. The older family members then reciprocate by giving their blessings and passing out the red envelopes.
The red color symbolizes good luck, happiness, and warding off evil spirits in Chinese and Vietnamese traditions. The act of giving red envelopes is a gesture of bestowing blessings, prosperity, and good luck to the recipients, particularly younger family members or unamarried individuals. Inside the red envelopes, money is usually placed in even denominations, as odd numbers are associated with funerals. The amount given is often symbolic and varies based on factors like age and the giver's relationship to the recipient.
Another Awards Ceremony Snafu
The We are Here challenge on February 27 2017 was: ZZ Top
Lighting: 1 SB-600 1/4 left, into reflective umbrella, wireless triggers
Auto Self Portrait
This year the first day of the Chinese Year falls on Valentine's Day February 14, 2010
A calendar is a system we use to measure the passage of time, from short durations of minutes and hours, to intervals of time measured in days, months, years and centuries. These are fundamentally based on the astronomical observations of the movement of the Sun, Earth, Moon and stars. Days are measured by the duration of time of one self rotation of the Earth. Months are measured by the duration of time of rotation of the Moon around the Earth. Years are measured by the duration of time it takes for the Earth to rotate around the Sun.
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The Chinese calendar predates our 430 year old Gregorian based international calendar by many centuries whereby our year 2010 is year 4708 in the Chinese calendar. This year of 2010 is the Year of the Tiger which is also known by its formal name of 'Geng Yin'.
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Chinese New Year Traditions:
Red Envelopes
Red envelopes (hóng bāo) are given to children and unmarried adults. Married couples also give red envelopes to their parents. The envelopes contain money in new bills, and the total amount must be an even number. “Four” is a homonym for “death” therefore the total amount should never contain $4, $40, or $400.
Lantern Festival and Fireworks
The Festival proper begins on the first day of the first lunar month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. The Chinese believe that evil spirits are driven away by loud noise therefore the Chinese New Year is a very loud celebration. Firecrackers are set off throughout the near two week long holiday, and there are many displays of fireworks lighting up the evening skies.
Some countries such as Singapore and Malaysia restrict the use of fireworks, but Taiwan and Mainland China still allow almost unrestricted use of firecrackers and fireworks.
Chinese Zodiac
The Chinese zodiac cycles every 12 years, each year is named after a respected animal.
Tiger : February 14, 2010 - February 02, 2011
Rabbit : February 03, 2011 - January 22, 2012
Dragon : January 23, 2012 - February 09, 2013
Snake : February 10, 2013 - January 30, 2014
Horse : January 31, 2014 - February 18, 2015
Sheep : February 19, 2015 - February 07, 2016
Monkey : February 08, 2016 - January 27, 2017
Rooster : January 28, 2017 - February 18, 2018
Dog : February 19, 2018 - February 04, 2019
Pig : February 05, 2019 - January 24, 2020
Rat : January 25, 2020 - February 11, 2021
Ox : February 12, 2021 - January 31, 2022
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Silver umbrella/speedlite above and to camera right. Snooted speedlite behind subject left. Silver reflector camera left.
Next Monday (Jan 26) is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). Wish all the Chinese friends a very happy new year! And we are more than glad if other friends join us for the celebrations!
The Chinese character is an inverted "福" (happiness). It means "happiness has come"
Animal sign of this new year is ox. Ox is bull, right? Hope market becomes bullish very soon and everybody has a much better life in 2009!
Tokens given out by our local grocery store for the first day of the Chinese New Year of the Year of the Pig on February 5, 2019.
Today is Lunar New Year and it also happens to be Flickr's 20th birthday. Happy New Year for those who celebrate the Lunar New Year and Happy Birthday to Flickr!
Chinese New Years is always a happy time for the kids. All they know is they get red envelopes filled with money. How can you go wrong with that?
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Strobist:
Octa camera left, bare speedlites behind to the left and right.
'chúc mừng năm mới 2016'
Captured of Money Tree with Red Envelopes, a gift of luck and wealth during the Lunar New Year celebration.
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Celebrating the Lunar New Year... Chinese New Year, chúc mừng năm mới. Captured in the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles California USA
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Happy Chinese New Year! The fortune in the background says 'Knowing you is good fortune'. I would have to agree. There are so many ways to define what fortune is :-)))
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My Chinatown Tales illustration series will be on exhibition for the very first time at this year's Get Lucky show, hosted by District Local.
www.districtlocal.com/things-to-do-in-vancouver/get-lucky...
Red envelopes are gifts presented at social and family gatherings such as weddings or on holidays such as the Lunar New Year. The red color of the envelope symbolizes good luck and is supposed to ward off evil spirits. Red packets are usually given out by married couples to single people, especially to children.
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Liverpool Chinatown, with The Lucky Man handing out the traditional little Red Envelopes, mainly to the youngsters in the crowds.
* Christmas tree made of felt, decorated with little buttons.
* Kerstboom gemaakt van vilt, gedecoreerd met knoopjes.
Happy Lunar New Year! Despite my self portrait this week, I didn't get any red envelopes today. But we did have a mini celebration at home. We prayed, burned some incense and Chinese paper, and had a wonderful lunch.
Kung Hei Fat Choi everyone!
Red envelopes (hong paos or cash in ths case) being "fed" to the Chinese Lion's mouth during the many Lion dances, this is supposed to bring good luck and is considered a donation for the martial arts troupe setting up the performance.
天后宫 (Chùa Bà Thiên Hậu) Lion\Dragon Dance Team at Austin Chinatown.
2017 Year of the Rooster Celebration.
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Well first off Happy Chinese New Year to everyone who actually celebrates this day. My family and I didn't really do anything for it this year, probably because it was on a Sunday this year. Though I don't really celebrate any holiday so makes no difference to me. And its actually the year of the snake now, fun fact I'm actually a snake, not a horse like most people born in my year, all because I was born before the Lunar New Year so technically I'm a snake. I actually had a another idea for this shot that involved the red pockets you get but that didn't work out. Another idea involved some sparklers I had but I couldn't get around to doing that one plus I think those would set off the fire alarm if I did it indoors. So I ended up using one of the paper lanterns I have and used that for todays shot, plus the one red pocket I got hahaha.
So first off as I'm sure most people can tell this is a composite. I only actually have two paper lanterns so I had to Photoshop in the others. I also used a large dark blue bed sheet as a backdrop for this shot cause frankly trying to stop the light from the lanterns from spilling onto a white wall would have been next to impossible with what I was working with. The lanterns were held up by fishing wire and lit with a speedlight that I just held behind the lanterns, I also switched into a black shirt that way I wouldn't really get lit to much and would be easier to remove in Photoshop. After getting plenty of shots of the lanterns I just went into Photoshop and put it all together, a pretty simple photo with plenty of red light leak effects added just cause I felt the photo needed some more red.
Strobist Info
Nikon SB-800 camera right with a 26" Aurora Firefly firing at 1/64 power
22" Silver reflector on the ground as fill
Nikon SB-800 camera left with a full CTO gel and a snoot fired at 1/128 power.
For the lanterns I handheld a Nikon SB-80DX with 2 full CTO gels behind them at 1/128 power.
The title for todays song comes from a line in the song "I'm Beginning To See The Light" and of course I'm referring to the version sung by Frank Sinatra.
I felt like changing backpacks, so I emptied my backpack and look at all the crap I had in there.
Inspired by donna_3011's photos, "What's in my work bag?" and "What's in my bag"
Can you find Winnie-the-Pooh?
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Happy Chinese New Year everyone! :D
traditionally, kids would say "gong hai fat choi" (meaning to have a prosperous and good year) to adults during CNY, and married couples would have to give them a red envelope which contains money... well... not always!
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