[Leica] Fiestas de Quito

[Lluis Ripoll]

Very nicde series portraits od theEquatorian characters, faces, traditions

Cheers
Lluis


> El 19 gen 2019, a les 5:02, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
> 
> The second and last set of photos from Quito.
> 
> Walking around the old city, we ran smack bang into the annual Fiestas de
> Quito festival, which goes on for a week or two, culminating in the first
> week of December, and which celebrates the founding of Quito in the 16th
> century.
> 
> As we were walking around, I took this quick portrait of Neela and myself,
> looking at a tableaux of a barbershop - the barber is a mannequin, not real:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10279.jpg.html
> 
> Then we were in the thick of things! One colourful group of pretty
> senoritas:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10305.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10307.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10310.jpg.html
> 
> A major feature of the celebrations is a beauty contest, the Reina de
> Quito, and the winners went by:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10401.jpg.html
> 
> Participants after their turn at the parade:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10297.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181121-10031.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10272.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10376.jpg.html
> 
> These two guys really looked to me  like stereotyped mafioso, but were
> actually musicians:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10340.jpg.html
> 
> The spectators did their own thing, and watched the parades (with one
> homage to Jim Shulman!):
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10312.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10320.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10398.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10399.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10400.jpg.html
> 
> I wonder if that hostel is the Ecuadorian equivalent of a Japanese love
> hotel?
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Ecuador/Galapagos-20181122-10383.jpg.html
> 
> Please see LARGE
> 
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome!
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
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