Happy Lantern Festival
The fifteenth day of the first lunar festival is celebrated as Lantern Festival. It marks the first full moon of the new year and various types of colored lanterns, both simple and elaborate, can be seen wherever Chinese culture exists.
In Taiwan, the festival becomes more popular each year, with more and more cities hosting activities and creating artistic displays of lanterns. The above photo is from the banks of the Love River in Kaohsiung.
Sky lanterns made of oiled rice paper on bamboo frames are very common throughout East Asia. When the lantern is lit inside, the lower density of the hot air causes the lantern to float into the sky. This photo was shot in Hualien, on the east coast of Taiwan.
I hope you enjoy lantern festival this year. Best wishes.
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Craig Ferguson Images | Cultural Photography. One of the key aspects of life that we humans identify with is culture. We label people, places and events according to our ideas of what they are, ranging from the broader scale defined by tradition and place down to the small scale subcultures and tribes. Craig Ferguson Images is consistantly creating new visions in the field of cultural photography. From traditional festives and customs to modern, urban subcultures, Craig Ferguson Images is in touch with the changing world. From our base in Taipei, Taiwan we are perfectly positioned at the crossroads of the ancient and the modern.
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Great work Craig, you really caught the mood. Is that the 17 -40 on the top image? I like your choices there, the perspective, very nice.
Shooting this year's lantern festival was a lot of fun for me here. Like nothing I've seen before, with a sea of humanity flowing like lava through the city.
Thanks. Yeah, that was the 17-40mm, same as the 2nd shot. The third was with a 50mm prime.