Carnevale 2012 part one

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

Unavoidable like death and taxes, here's my annual Carnevale series. Laughing

It's my sixth in a row (seventh total if counting 2005). I begin to have quite an archive Smile

This year the freezing weather has seriously limited the shows, but in number and in partecipation.
Sorry that I could not make my usual presentation with frames etc., but I'm on limited time and after changing the OS, I still have to reintall my photoshop actions.
This is a first part, other parts will follow.
The photos in this first series have all been taken with Contax Vario-Sonnar 80-200
And, thanks for viewing Smile

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Yebisu · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 1299

Nice series.

Doesn't look like carnival weather to me. Why is your carnival in the winter?

Jesito · Expire: 2015-01-07

I was missing your carnaval shots Smile

Thanks for sharing,

Jes.

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

Thanks

Carnevale is always in the Winter. The words Carne Vale is Latin for "goodbye flesh" and it refers to the beginning of the sacred Lent period,
when you are supposed to abandon all meat eating and also all other flesh ehm... habits, until the Easter.

Of course, the Christian celebration (like all other Christian holidays including Easter itself) has taken the place of older pagan celebrations.
The Carnevale has an origin that is lost in the night of the times, and it was originally a rite of passage from the darkness to the light, and from the Winter to the Spring.
During the Roman period, it also took some sort of political meaning (the upside-down world, when for one day the poor were able to laugh at the rich without being punished).

F16SUNSHINE · Expire: 2011-11-18