[Leica] IMG: Nathan's PAW 26: Hogueras de San Juan and Stephanie's summer party

[Douglas Barry]

A very good collection there Nathan. I hope the job shift to the new 
dept is working out.
The hogueras are very impressive and very well finished if they are only 
made of wood and papier-mâché. How do they get them so photogenically 
smooth and shiny? I suppose it’s just an intergenerational skill that I 
may have missed out on.. We have a festival fire tradition over here too 
at this time in parts of rural Ireland also associated with St. John, 
but it’s much older than Christianity. We also had on in May called 
Bealtine which means the fires of Baal. However, it’s fuelled by pieces 
of wood as opposed to anything as sculptural as hogueras.
The burning must be spectacular.
Douglas


On 17/07/2024 06:32, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> More than any other blog this year, the collection for the last week of June, is mostly about local colour, and about people having a good time, in the centre of Alicante, where the week-long fiesta called Hogueras de San Juan culminated on Monday the 24th, and three days later our department’s summer party at the house of my colleague Stephanie, which also functioned as a farewell to me—I am changing jobs within my office and therefore I have left the department in which I have worked for 12 years and where I have many strong personal relationships.
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> It’s all here:
> https://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=4376
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