In Japan, winter light festivals are kind of a big thing. Traditionally, they would involve paper lanterns… lots and lots of paper lanterns. How people would manage to get thousands of lit candles into huge masses of hanging paper lanterns without starting an epic conflagration, I have no idea. But in more recent years, especially since the successful introduction of a sort of commercial “Christmas”-time, big L.E.D. light displays have become more popular. Some of them are actually pretty impressive.
Locally in the US, however, we have our own version that gets set up in a nearby, bigger city park… the, “Dragon Lights”. And this year, a friend and I decided to take a trip down the hill to check them out. There were several themes in the event: “Chinese”, sea life, and a sort of imaginary forest. The “lights” are actually like large, themed, internally-lit lanterns. Each one is rather a work of art, and seem like they must have required a great deal of labor to produce.
At any rate, this is just going to be another photo blurb.
For anyone interested, I was using a 15mm, f1.4 lens on my old Sony APSC camera for the shots. They’ll open up to about 50% resolution. Editing was minimal.
The Dragon!
The Green Griffin. Sometimes, he’d move… and occasionally blow smoke.
The Lantern Passage. Kind of a Japanese feeling.
Ocean Passage.
A large, hungry-looking crustacean of some type. He doesn’t seem to have noticed me yet.
Squid. Now I’m hungry.
Flashbacks!
Mushrooms… That explains it.
The Unicorn blew out the camera’s poor little sensor.
A Pegacorn!
Luminous Aether 
Unicorns can be very challenging to photograph. Congratulations on getting a reasonable picture of one.
Beautiful photos. I’ll bet it was even more beautiful, seeing these displays in person.
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It was a pleasant evening activity. I think these kinds of things are greatly underrated in the US. There were a lot of families just enjoying some time together… pretty cool.
There’s a “unicorn crossing” sign along a back road in Reno. I keep meaning to get a picture of it.
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I’m glad the fine folks of Reno are looking out for the safety of migrating unicorns.
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Just think … the unicorns posed for her, but yet you have never been able to photograph one. Hmmm … She must have some special powers 🙂
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She must. I’ve never had any creature with one horn expose itself to me.
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Wow! Awesome photos!
Can’t pick a favorite. They are all unique, especially the unicorn. 😉 I like the Japanese feel of the lanterns and gotta love the sea life!
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Thank you! I’m nowhere as good a photographer as Jason. But I’ve been trying to take more pictures lately, and figure out how some things work. These were kind of a challenge.
The sea life section was really fun and interesting. It was like we were walking around on the bottom through glowing sea grass and anemones, looking up at the swimming animals.
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You are welcome. Keep snapping. I think you are doing great!
That sounds so cool! Would be fun!
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Positively Luminous✨Oceanic fantasy!📷🌠🐲🐋🏮
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