Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]hope to see more of you around here don't be so scarce ric On Jan 3, 2010, at 4:34 PM, John Edwin Mason wrote: > Greetings from Cape Town, where the New Year's Carnival is in full swing. > > The carnival is a lot like Rio's and Mardi Gras in New Orleans--a time of > licensed insubordination. The minstrel troupes that I've been hanging > with for the last four years are similar to the samba schools of Rio and > New Orleans' social aid and pleasure clubs. Music, dancing, feasting, > parading, fine costumes, and a certain amount of intoxicants.... > > On the other hand, this carnival has nothing to do with the Christian > calendar. It's rooted in nineteenth-century commemorations of the end of > slavery in colonial South Africa. > > I spent New Year's Day with with the Pennsylvania Crooning Minstrels, one > of the troupes that shows up a lot in the book I've been working on: > > http://tinyurl.com/y8gsljt > > Carnival's biggest day (although it's far from the only big day) is the > January 2nd, when over 60 troupes march through the streets of Cape Town. > Even though all the shooting for the book is done, I couldn't find a > reason to stay away. The results are here: > > http://tinyurl.com/yb4lm8n > > Comments warmly welcomed. > > --John > > ****************************** > John Edwin Mason, Photography: > http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com > Charlottesville and Cape Town > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information