photax
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Post by photax on Mar 7, 2011 13:27:20 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2011 14:01:02 GMT -5
Nice images. We were in Venice in late March 2007 and it was very chilly.
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Post by mickeyobe on Mar 7, 2011 14:23:58 GMT -5
MIK,
A word that is used much to frequently describes the pictures and their subjects, FANTASTIC.
Mickey
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Post by Doug T. on Mar 7, 2011 14:44:37 GMT -5
Great Photos MIK! I've always been fascinated by the masks that they wear. I wonder how the whole thing came about. Doug
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Post by daveh on Mar 7, 2011 15:06:04 GMT -5
MIK,
I wondered where you had got to! Great photographs. I particularly like the last one, which I believe is a self-portrait. ;D
One thing though: I wonder if any others of them were smiling for the camera.
Dave
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Post by nikonbob on Mar 7, 2011 16:56:39 GMT -5
Good to see you survived the weekend and were able to get some photos too. Those costumes are really something else and your photos caught them well.
Bob
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Post by photax on Mar 8, 2011 13:40:39 GMT -5
Thank you guys . Dave, the last one is definitely a self portrait ;D. Doug, the Carnival there originally had been a festival to say goodbye to the winter and welcome the spring. Later it had been an opportunity for the common people to dress and feel like the nobility and rich. You can also see historic costumes there, like the “beak-mask” , former worn by the pest doctors in the Middle Ages. They believed that some spice in the front end of the beak would prevent them from being infected by the pest. Maybe this was a good idea, I don’t know. MIK
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Post by Doug T. on Mar 8, 2011 14:04:51 GMT -5
Hi MIK! I can't get over those costumes! They are just too cool!! I couldn't help but think of that story, "The Masque of the Red Death". Wonderful photos Doug
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Post by SidW on Mar 8, 2011 20:37:34 GMT -5
Splendid Mik. Scary faces. If I'd been a plague bug I'd've been scared to death.
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