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Subject: [Leica] Dance of Death (Verges)
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:54:49 +0530
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Luis,
This series is sensational - so atmospheric,  and so Leica! We can see where
the mysticism of religion comes in, and how the old priests were masters of
drama to enhance the experience. If I were you, I would bundle the whole
thing into a book from Blurb!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll at 
telefonica.net>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Spain has many traditions, the "Semana Santa" (Holy Week) is very popular
> and quite different in Andalucia, Catalunya or other. Here I show you a 
> very
> old medieval tradition in the village of Verges, a nice small town where is
> celebrated the procession the thursday night and the "Dance of Death".
>
> http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/deathdance/
>
>
> I've tried to follow Dr. Ted's advice "if you can see it, you can shot it".
> It was really available light, almost dark, and subjects in movement, I
> don't like use the flash (I've tried it ony in 3 pictures), my M8 was 
> setted
> at ISO2500 but the pictures are very noisy, maybe with film I've get better
> results. However I want share with you a general view to this nice village,
> the procession and the famous "Dance of Death" (in catalan: Dansa de la
> mort).
>
> Thanks for looking, I'll appreciate your comments and critics
>
> Saludos cordiales
> Lluis
>
>
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