[Leica] Chinese Lantern Festival

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

It is yuuuuge, Douglas, about 60m long.

I believe the show is a commercial one produced by a Chinese company. No literature was available, so I don’t know whether this is a new idea or not (hard to think there are new art forms after 4000 years of Chinese civilization!). I know that there have been others in the U.S. I don’t know of any Chinese community here in the Raleigh area. Lots of Indian and I believe Pakistani attendees at our astronomy club’s monthly public viewings, probably as a result of the three big universities here and the industrial research firms in the Research Triangle Park area, but I don’t think there are many Chinese immigrants.

—howard


> On Dec 4, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> Very skillfully done those creations - is it a Chinese community initiative, Howard? I like the Dragon 1 Swimming This Way best. To use a Trumptastic adjective, it seemes yyyuuuge!
> 
> Douglas
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard L Ritter Jr" <hlritter at twc.com>
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> 
>> The Booth Amphitheatre in nearby Cary, NC, is the venue for the second year of something called the Chinese Lantern Festival, a product of a Chinese firm. The main feature is dozens of installations of figures created from fabric over wire frames and illuminated from within by LEDs. I don’t know whether this is a modernization of some Chinese traditional art or festival, or a purely commercial creation, but it’s impressive to walk through at night. There are some nice photo ops:
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Chinese+Lantern+Festival/ <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Chinese+Lantern+Festival/>
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>> 
>> Taken with Sony a7rII FF mirrorless and Sony 24-70 zoom. C&C welcome.
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>> —howard
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