Bob Blaylock
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In a couple hours, a “party bus” is supposed to arrive to pick me up, so that I may spend the day taking photographs of the festivities surrounding a friend's daughter's Quinceañera. I'm looking forward to this. Up until now, I've only had the vaguest awareness of this tradition—a very big deal for girls of Latin American heritage when they reach the age of fifteen years.
I'd be interested in knowing how it went!
I think it went well. I took a total of eight hundred fifty pictures—by far the most I've ever taken in a day. I started the day with three full camera batteries, and an empty 32GB memory card in my camera, and ended it with three nearly-empty batteries and a nearly-full memory card.
It'll probably take me days to sift through all the raw pictures, and pick out some good ones to process into finished results for my friend.
Slowly, around other things, working through the huge stack of pictures. Here are a few I've finished so far…
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HOW BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
Getting near the end of sifting through these pictures, this one jumped out at me. Out of eight hundred fifty pictures that I took that day, I think this is the most beautiful moment that I caught. The guest of honor, dancing with her father. Just look at the expression on her face.
And some other pictures from this same occasion…