Secret Lantern Festival 2008
Dec. 22nd, 2008 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agoodwinsmithWe did attend the Secret Lantern Festival. Here is the link to the city-wide festival:
http://www.secretlantern.org/
We participated in the Strathcona/Chinatown route, which ends up at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens. I did not take photos of the procession, but I would say there were about 30-40 people.
Although - the photo does not show how pretty they were with a single tea light glowing inside.
The Dr. Sun-Yat Sen Gardens are a replica of a traditional Chinese garden for a scholar. There are beautiful mosaics, and woods, and lattice work, and ponds, and pagodas on pinnacles, and everywhere you go there are more amazingly beautiful things to see - and they are all contained within one city block. Lanterns of a similar style to ours (bamboo struts with tissue paper attached and harded with white glue) were all over the gardens. I only got photos of a couple, but there were moons, and fish, and globes with beautiful leaves attached in the glue coat.
The mist is my breath - I would hold my breath while composing the shot, and then expell it as I pressed the shutter release. Ah haha.
The one above is of a pagoda on a pinnacle, with a big globe lantern inside it - above are the lights of apartment towers.
And finally, there was a man, taking photos, who was wearing a toque made out of work socks. He kindly let me take pictures.
The roads were as greasy underfoot as they were earlier in the day. And it snowed throughout, but it wasn't cold.
EDIT - should be Pook Toques:
http://www.pooktoque.com/
http://www.secretlantern.org/
We participated in the Strathcona/Chinatown route, which ends up at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens. I did not take photos of the procession, but I would say there were about 30-40 people.
Although - the photo does not show how pretty they were with a single tea light glowing inside.
The Dr. Sun-Yat Sen Gardens are a replica of a traditional Chinese garden for a scholar. There are beautiful mosaics, and woods, and lattice work, and ponds, and pagodas on pinnacles, and everywhere you go there are more amazingly beautiful things to see - and they are all contained within one city block. Lanterns of a similar style to ours (bamboo struts with tissue paper attached and harded with white glue) were all over the gardens. I only got photos of a couple, but there were moons, and fish, and globes with beautiful leaves attached in the glue coat.
The mist is my breath - I would hold my breath while composing the shot, and then expell it as I pressed the shutter release. Ah haha.
The one above is of a pagoda on a pinnacle, with a big globe lantern inside it - above are the lights of apartment towers.
And finally, there was a man, taking photos, who was wearing a toque made out of work socks. He kindly let me take pictures.
The roads were as greasy underfoot as they were earlier in the day. And it snowed throughout, but it wasn't cold.
EDIT - should be Pook Toques:
http://www.pooktoque.com/
