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Subject: [Leica] Bocairent Moros y Cristianos fiesta 2008
From: jmaddox01 at suddenlink.net (Jack Maddox)
Date: Fri Feb 8 04:35:03 2008
References: <E0CE4F89-7342-4585-A7F8-0E03A0899B7E@nathanfoto.com>

I enjoyed viewing them as always. Thanks for sharing them with us.
Jack

Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Last Saturday, we were invited to a party in the small town of 
> Bocairent, about 100 km from Alicante, to attend a party celebrating 
> the beginning of the town's annual Moros y Cristianos fiesta, the 
> biggest event of the year in that small town of about 4500 
> inhabitants. The lady in the striped shirt performing a dance with a 
> sword is the hostess; the particular group we were with were Moros 
> (whether one is a Moro or Cristiano in these fiestas is something that 
> is passed on through generations).
>
> The pics are really just party pictures, and I made the gallery mainly 
> for the people involved, but thought I might show them to a broader 
> audience as well:
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4301077
>
> All taken with the E3, with IS turned on, nominally at ISO 800 but 
> given the amount of exposure correction I had to do in Lightroom, I 
> was really shooting at ISO 1600. The IS was somewhat useful when 
> people were not moving, but overall I think it is suited mostly to 
> photographing buildings at night, not people having a good time.
>
> Nathan
>
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