[Leica] IMG: Nathan's PAW 15: Santa Faz aftermath and a backyard BBQ

[Don Dory]

Rarely for me, forget the dog.  Set up portrait sessions with your guest.
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On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 12:01 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Not so much happening in mid-April, a hiatus between the trip to Paris the
> preceding week and upcoming trips to Denmark and London later in the month.
> But this week was just about work and home activities, punctuated by a
> local holiday on Thursday, Santa Faz. It is a strictly Alicante holiday
> (so, all shops etc. are open normally in the suburb where I live because we
> are in the neighbouring municipality El Campello which does not celebrate
> this holiday). Santa Faz is called this because of a relic housed in a
> local monastery, a piece of cloth allegedly used to wipe Jesus’s face when
> he was on the cross, and a related 16th century miracle. A major
> thoroughfare is closed, and a huge procession (more than 330,000 people
> this year) walks the 7-8 km from the cathedral in the centre to the Santa
> Faz monastery, not far from my house. Traditionally, a big part of the
> procession were teenagers pushing shopping carts full of booze and
> munchies. After the end of the procession they would walk another couple of
> km to the beach and party there the rest of the day. However, a few years
> ago the city clamped down on this “botellón”, even frisking people’s
> backpacks to ensure that no booze was smuggled to the beach, and of course
> no shopping carts anymore either. Instead, a “fiesta 0.0%” is organised on
> the beach, with music and various alcohol-free activities, although
> undoubtedly some people do manage to get their hooch past the police and in
> any event, the bars along the beach promenade are open normally. So in the
> afternoon I went to the beach to have a look.
>
> Besides Santa Faz, we had a bbq at our house on Sunday afternoon with the
> usual small group of friends and way more food than we could possibly eat,
> even with help from Balu, a cute greedy four-legged visitor. It is all here:
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> https://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=4304 <
> https://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=4304>
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> And as always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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