We actually attended a Dia de los Muertos Festival on Thursday night. Key word here is festival—it was festive, not morbid, sad, mournful, or frightening.
We went to see some student art work on display and stayed for the music, characters, and joyfulness of the celebration.
I also found the “effect” camera feature on my smart phone. (I am a slow learner.)
For my first post on Dia de los Muertos and remembrances of my family and food, click here.
For more about our local festival, click on the film below.
The photos look fun with the effect.
Thanks, I am easily amused! 🙂
What a haunting and beautiful festival to attend 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I think this will make our yearly calendar to attend. I wish we had not eaten dinner before we went b/c the tamales and churros smelled and looked wonderful!
Oh – homemade tamales! I so love them. Loved the post and the video was fantastic. Wish we had something like that here. I attended a skeleton parade in Colorado one year….it’s so beautiful. The tiny dancers from the video were wonderful!
I want to go early and stay late next year. We missed the little dancers. This is a great way to experience another culture in your own backyard.
What a fun evening and the photos are great!
I had fun with the app and I wish I would have taken more pictures.
That’s so cool that you actually attended a day of the dead festival – how suitably haunting yet entirely festive as illustrated in your photos…! A great night to remember no doubt.
What a neat festival! I had to check and see if my phone has those effects…nope…darn! I enjoyed yours all the same 🙂
So interesting! That fire dancing thing is kinda freaky but I guess they have lots of experience! Don’t know if I’d like to have fire whizzing around my midsection-lol! Your phone effects are neat. In the old days when digital cameras were new, I remember we had effects like changing the color to b&w, sepia, or negative. Sheesh, kids these days have it all! lol
Thanks for humoring me regarding the pics. I thought I was super cool to have discovered it and now you tell me that these effects have been around??? LOL
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