I attended a Japanese Street Festival for about 5 hours on Saturday and the cliched slang that would accompany such an event are sticking with me. Let me tell you, there is nothing like a refreshing grilled Octopus Tentacle during the first warm day of spring. And Cosplay. Lot's of Cosplay. I spent a good portion of Saturday afternoon with DC Street aficionado Matt Dunn and my captures should be available for viewing soon.
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| Group Photo with Uzuhi! (Not my photo, just my MS Paint skills) |
Sunday was another productive day on the streets and this weekends flurry of activity was spurred on by a small collection of very motivational events:
1. Friday night was a viewing of EVERYBODY STREET with my girlfriend and some of her graduate program classmates. Plus, it's Director and visionary, Cheryl Dunn (not related to the Matt Dunn mentioned above) was in attendance. I have found Everybody Street to be a tremendous source of inspiration for my exploration and practice of Street photography and I've seen the documentary before, so the real treat was when Cheryl came out for a couple drinks with me, my girlfriend and her classmates after the viewing. She has some hilarious stories about the time she spent with the eccentric collection of NY Street photographers featured in Everybody Street and offered a lot of perspective on the NY photography scene over the past couple decades.
2. The weather. Even Inside People were dying to be outside this weekend. Christ it was nice in DC.
3. I finally stopped by the HUGE Garry Winogrand Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday afternoon. It was amazing to see such a broad overview of Garry's life work and I was really happy to see a lot of laymen tourists checking out Street Photography for the first time. In all, the exhibit is much too big for one visit. I made it through about 2/3's of its material before I had to call it quits. I photographed like a mad man once I got out of there though so the furnace was lit, that's for sure.
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| This was SO CLOSE to being a selfie |