After converting some old Kodachromes of the Castelnovo Carnival (RE) that I took
20 years ago to digital with a view to putting together a Blurb book, I
decided to see what the carnival is like today.
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
It was also an
excuse to try to get to grips with my new Olympus OM-D EM5 – Lumix 12-35 setup, which is far more complicated to use than
the Nikon D300.
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
The Castelnovo carnival is a small scale version of the more famous
Viareggio and Cento carnivals. It consists of a series ( five or six) of floats with large animated paper
màchè sculptures’ that are towed by tractors endlessly around the centre of the town. This is accompanied by deafening music blaring
out from onboard sound systems. It is one of those events that can be categorised as
a curiosity of Italian life.
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
However It is fun to photograph whilst keeping a sharp eye open for the nasty
little kids on the floats who will cover you in aerosol powered gunk or paper
confetti if you catch their attention.
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
I am really getting to like this camera, it is discrete and once I get the hang of it, quite fast
enough for this type of photography. The Olympus JPEG colours are great and whilst I shot both Raw and JPEG, a lot of
the photographs were fine strait out of the camera, just like the Kodachromes
that I took all those years ago.
By the way, the carnival was also just the same as the last time I saw
it.
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| Carnevale di Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia |
