Lantern Festival

On Thursday, I attended the 10th annual Lantern Festival at Forest Hills Cemetery in JP. I've been going to this every year for about 5 years now. Always a beautiful display.


Floating lanterns

Lanterns in B&W

Wake Up the Earth, 2008

The opening ceremony at Stony Brook
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Dancers on the Sun Stage, dancing to the music of Copal

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Hannah Thiem of Copal performing on the Main stage
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A cold, wet spring day, but Jamaica Plain's Wake Up the Earth festival went on. More pictures from the day.

Tony Brown record release party

Tony Brown at the Midway Cafe

Tony Brown performing at the Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain at the record release party for his CD, Music For a Shrinking World


Forest Hills cemetery in the snow

gravestones

Forest Hills Cemetery

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More photos of Forest Hills Cemetery.

Belly Dancers

This is reworking of an older photo that I took at the Wake up the Earth Festival in JP of dancers from Ombellyco

belly dancers

Mostly, I was just playing around, attempting to make the photo a bit stronger with a little cropping and doing something with the background, which was just too distracting.

Lanterns

lanterns

From the JP Lantern Parade

JP World's Fair

A samba dancer at yesterday's World's Fair in the Hyde Square section of Jamaica Plain.
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more photos here.

Forest Hills Lantern Festival

lighting the way

Centre St at night

Purple Cactus

Blue Frog

Blue Frog

Lurking above Green St in JP, ready to snag passersby.