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Roaring music
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Copyright: Clemente Perez (kLe)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-03-16 |
| Categories: Festivals |
| Camera: Canon EOS 400D, Canon EOS 17-85 EF-S |
| Exposure: f/16, 1/500 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-03-23 2:52 |
| Viewed: 456 |
| Points: 6 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
In the region of Valencia, Spain fire is celebrated with delight. In Alicante in June they make big bonfires. In Valencia in March they celebrate the great festival called "Fallas" and big sculptural compositions made of cardboard and other very flammable materials are burned.
To this belongs also love for fireworks. But in this case the visual part is not the most important one. Here noise is the goal and the motif. Thousands of firecrackers are exploded in only five minutes. But the explosions need to have a certain rythm. Like a musical composition it begins with a kind of prelude, continues with a central body and ends with a "gran finale". Some of the firecrackers are exploded close to the ground and people can feel for some seconds a kind of earthquake. People can feel how the legs are shaking. So to "music" we can add "dance" :)
The name of this in Valencian is "mascletá". |
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