13-02-02 OPMUG Chinese New Year Parade

Hooked up with the OPMUG photo group for one of my favorite parades, the Chinese New Year festivities parade.  Once again we worked the Alakea & Hotel Streets intersection.  It's a good place to shoot because the marchers are fresh and pre-march it's close enough to the staging area to get  some candids of the participants.

He was the last pedestrian and the cars were beginning to get a little antsy...but there were so many police officers at the intersection no one dared move.

I think these three have outgrown their "dragon."

Traffic cones all lined up are just wonderful.

Love it when the brass in the band is so shiny.

I think he's in charge of the Navy fleet band.

Drummers gotta drum.

I think he's supposed to be Genghis Khan.

Yeah, he took a picture of me taking a picture of him...

So pensive.

2013 Miss Hawaii Brianna Acosta

2013 Miss Hawaii Teen Samantha Neyland.

Drum line.

So happy that I was able to get one good shot of this young man.  His parents obviously are concerned about protecting his hearing.

These young ladies were so cute!

2 different processing choices for the dragon.

That's a ball in front of the dragon.  If you keep your eye on the ball you'll notice the dragon follows and mimics it's every move.

It's only the beginning of the parade...