Fantastic Festivals

Challenge #8 in the ROAD Traveler series. Hosted by Tejas Ariwala.

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In India we have the Colourful Holi /Ganesh( Elephant GOD) Festival /Curd pot Breaking Festival / Kite festival and so on... In Spain the La Tomatina, In UK the Cheese rolling, In Italy Ivrea the Orange Throwing Festival , Silleto running Festival in Amsterdam Netherlands...etc. All the festivals bring the people together as a community. Do you know of any?? If yes then Please share it with the world by way of a wonderful image. Please note : Description of the image is Mandatory

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Announced:

Sunday, 30th August, 2009 (GMT)

Submissions:

Sunday, 6th September, 2009 – Saturday, 12th September, 2009 (GMT)

Voting:

Sunday, 13th September, 2009 – Saturday, 19th September, 2009 (GMT)

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Basic Post Processing

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No restrictions.

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Description of the Image / festival is Mandatory .
No Fireworks / light shows image.
No Zombie / Halloween festivals.

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Maximum number of entries in challenge:

499

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Venice carnival mask portrait

by jonny1976

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I portrayed this mask using a little softbox on the right of the camera. the blue color of the mask and the contrastg very good with the little light in the background

Camera:	Pentax K10D
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Submitted:	Saturday, 12th September, 2009 21:09 (GMT)
Taken:	Monday, 4th February, 2008
Focal length:	50 mm
Shutter speed:	1/20 sec
Aperture:	F4.5
ISO:	400
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Views:	1664

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