Pro Bono Assignment – Zhoujia QingMing event
I do selective Pro Bono photography jobs. One of them is the Qingming Festival praying event organised by the Zhoujiaquan lion dance troupes. Most of these troupes operated on a non commerical basis. Their main source of income is to go around performing “picking the greens” during Chinese New Year periods. Since I am always interested in lion dance, I have been shooting this Qingming event for a few years.
This year the event was on 11 Apr 10. The weather was great but it got really hot towards noon. Of course the light also got harsher. I shoot mainly with prime lenses, 16mm, 50mm and 90mm with the manual 16mm fisheye lens was my main workhorse that day.
Here are some photos to share.
Beautiful Light
Bowing before going up the clubhouse
Lion Head having a suntan on the lorry
Zhoujia senior conducting the basic routine
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May 20th, 2010
I like the distortion of the buildings in the first image. Good eye for the colors too.