Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rarely for me, forget the dog. Set up portrait sessions with your guest. ? On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 12:01?AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Not so much happening in mid-April, a hiatus between the trip to Paris the > preceding week and upcoming trips to Denmark and London later in the month. > But this week was just about work and home activities, punctuated by a > local holiday on Thursday, Santa Faz. It is a strictly Alicante holiday > (so, all shops etc. are open normally in the suburb where I live because we > are in the neighbouring municipality El Campello which does not celebrate > this holiday). Santa Faz is called this because of a relic housed in a > local monastery, a piece of cloth allegedly used to wipe Jesus?s face when > he was on the cross, and a related 16th century miracle. A major > thoroughfare is closed, and a huge procession (more than 330,000 people > this year) walks the 7-8 km from the cathedral in the centre to the Santa > Faz monastery, not far from my house. Traditionally, a big part of the > procession were teenagers pushing shopping carts full of booze and > munchies. After the end of the procession they would walk another couple of > km to the beach and party there the rest of the day. However, a few years > ago the city clamped down on this ?botell?n?, even frisking people?s > backpacks to ensure that no booze was smuggled to the beach, and of course > no shopping carts anymore either. Instead, a ?fiesta 0.0%? is organised on > the beach, with music and various alcohol-free activities, although > undoubtedly some people do manage to get their hooch past the police and in > any event, the bars along the beach promenade are open normally. So in the > afternoon I went to the beach to have a look. > > Besides Santa Faz, we had a bbq at our house on Sunday afternoon with the > usual small group of friends and way more food than we could possibly eat, > even with help from Balu, a cute greedy four-legged visitor. It is all > here: > > https://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=4304 < > https://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=4304> > > And as always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com