Happy New Year - Year Of The Boar (Pig)!

[terrycioni]

It was a perfect day for a parade. The weather man said rain but oh yeah wrong again!

The Lunar New Year Parade in Vancouver BC always attracts are large crowd to Vancouver's Chinatown. The year of the pig - seemed to be even bigger and better than expected.

We decided to check it out, and managed to get a reasonable parking spot. All shot without IR filters - using ZM 25mm F2.8, Tri-Elmar V1 F4, and the 90 AA Summicron F2. It was a fun day.

Wow talk about heavy duty hardware, Nikon and Canon were highly visible. There were even a few film cameras floating around. Man were there alot of D200, D70s, and D80.

Here are just a few on my good old flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/streetfusion/sets/72157594543343882/

If you click on the picture and then the All Sizes tab you can see a larger view. All processed with C1 Pro using the Jamie Roberts profile (thank you Jamie).

Best To All. Terry.

 

[herbkell@shaw.c]

Good shots Terry - I was going to shoot the festivities but arrived late and couldn't get a decent vantage point.

 

[patrickho777]

Hi all,

I did not know there are quite a few M8 users in Vancouver. Can we form a meet up group to share experience or just get together.

 

[terrycioni]

Patrick, can't see why not.... I know there are at the very least 5 or 6 of us.

Cheers. Terry

 

[sirvine]

What is it with Chinese New Year and cameras? I passed through Chinatown here in NYC on Sunday and there were about thirty prosumer DSLR photographers for every lion dancer. I guess the law of probabilities is in favor of a few good shots, at least.

 

[terrycioni]

What is it with Chinese New Year and cameras? I passed through Chinatown here in NYC on Sunday and there were about thirty prosumer DSLR photographers for every lion dancer. I guess the law of probabilities is in favor of a few good shots, at least.

Did you take some pictures (at least). Given your law of probabilities and all that we might all be blown away by something different as it is NYC Chinatown.

Terry

 

[sirvine]

Not to sound like a crank or anything, but nothing ruins a shot faster than having six guys in the frame holding up monster SLRs. Your point is well taken, though. At the end of the day, it's all about working with what you've got.

 

[terrycioni]

Not to sound like a crank or anything, but nothing ruins a shot faster than having six guys in the frame holding up monster SLRs. Your point is well taken, though. At the end of the day, it's all about working with what you've got.

I do agree with your point and it was hard doging the DSLRs believe me. Indeed I think I was <almost> over come with some sort of envy thing. Longest I had was a 90mm.

Cheers. Terry.

 

[patrickho777]

Hi Terry,

Thank you for your input. I will set up a separate post for a M8 meetup group.