More great stuff from the powwow! After all the dancers and dignitaries and introduced and the stadium floor is full, the many drum groups get a chance to compete, one after the other. This takes about an hour, and all the while the dancers and anyone else who wants to participate add to the energy. I got some good shots of all the fun.
Pat and I hit up the annual Denver powwow last Saturday, and as usual it was amazing! Even more so this year, since it's the 50th anniversary of the event. What you see above is most or all the dancers who came from everywhere to compete, along with several dignitaries and flag bearers. At the beginning of the night the dancers are introduced one group at a time until the floor is completely covered. This year there were apparently over 1,100 of them! More tomorrow.
On Saturday I had a portrait shoot in Old Colorado City. I had told my clients that it would be relatively quiet since tourist season hasn't started yet, and I was very wrong -- the place was thronging with people. Upon closer inspection I noticed that a lot of them were dressed in sort of Alice in Wonderland cosplay getups, so I stopped a passerby and asked what was going on. It turns out that it was Mad Hatter Saturday! Certainly I would have loved to wander around Bancroft Park and capture all the cool outfits, but I was on the clock. I did manage to grab a snap of these two, though. I'll try to get ahead of this event next year so I can be part of the fun with a camera in hand.
I guess I'll end this little series with this shot of a crate stuck in Fountain Creek (at least I've always thought this was Fountain Creek, please correct me if I'm wrong). Kind of bleak but it makes for an interesting picture.
Little signs of spring! This seems a bit early in my opinion (even for daffodils), but we had an extremely mild winter after all. I saw another lady stoop down and take a picture of these same flowers as I was about to leave. I guess we're all ready for things to start growing again.
