Chinatown Parade
I got a chance to head down to the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco yesterday. While the actual New Year's day was last week I think they had it this weekend to avoid competing with the Superbowl.The whole parade actually starts at night so I was lucky to walk by the pre-parade area where the floats wer lined up in advance. I took advantage of the perfect natural sunlight reflecting off the brightly painted statue and decorations to get a colorful yet peaceful shot.
I tried to make it look like the Wealth God was peeking from behind the red board. I was happy with how the buildings in the background gave the image a sense of place (rather than blank sky).
Nikon Coolpix 5400, AV f6.2
[click photo to enlarge]
posted by Ahamed Iqbal at 12:11 AM
7 Comments:
It's cool, if only for the fact that it looks like a composite photo with good mix of color and details.Very graphic.
It's the last day of chinese new year, and chinese celebrate this day too. That is not a buddha, it's one of the wealth gods.
Nice pic!
cbtoday,
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Well, that is a very wealthy God !
Great colors !
Nice, simple and colourful composition.
Thanks for the comments.
There really is no replacement for bright natural light.
And I'll change the description to Wealth God, thanks cbtoday.
Cool! I like the bold, sparkly colors and the composition is neat with the statue kind of masked.
I wish I could have been in sunny, 70F California yesterday instead of getting blanketed with 12+ inches of snow in Philadelphia!!!
It looks huge! Chinese people love that wealth god.
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