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Water Lantern Festival - 2023 (part II)
Oct 1, 2023 08:04:10 #
Water Lantern Festival by Paul Sager, on Flickr
Humboldt Park
Chicago, IL
Sept 2023
Water Lantern Festival
Participants are encouraged to decorate their lanterns with messages of hope, love, dreams, goals, remembrance, or whatever your heart desires.
Water Lantern Festival
LED candles light each lanturn. They also ensure the clean-up team can find and collect the lanterns following the event.
Water Lantern Festival
Images captured in this post use primarily an EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II mounted to an EOS 5DIII, captured in RAW and processed in Adobe Lightroom v6.
Water Lantern Festival
The URL titles of each image can be used to access the images hosted on Flickr, where EXIF data and the ISO settings can be reviewed.
Water Lantern Festival
The launch window was planned for approximately one hour, but Chicago extended to 90-minutes due to long lines to get to the launch point.
Water Lantern Festival
Humboldt Park
Chicago, IL
Sept 2023
Water Lantern Festival
Participants are encouraged to decorate their lanterns with messages of hope, love, dreams, goals, remembrance, or whatever your heart desires.
Water Lantern Festival
LED candles light each lanturn. They also ensure the clean-up team can find and collect the lanterns following the event.
Water Lantern Festival
Images captured in this post use primarily an EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II mounted to an EOS 5DIII, captured in RAW and processed in Adobe Lightroom v6.
Water Lantern Festival
The URL titles of each image can be used to access the images hosted on Flickr, where EXIF data and the ISO settings can be reviewed.
Water Lantern Festival
The launch window was planned for approximately one hour, but Chicago extended to 90-minutes due to long lines to get to the launch point.
Water Lantern Festival
Oct 1, 2023 08:35:28 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Another great article and photos Paul. Thanks for sharing.
Oct 1, 2023 08:53:35 #
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Oct 1, 2023 09:01:46 #
Oct 1, 2023 10:07:59 #
Thank you Frank, Iron Sight! I think I like the challenges and results of low-light (digital) photography. 
Oct 1, 2023 10:17:18 #
These are beautiful images, Paul. I really like seeing the faces lit only by the lantern light.
Oct 1, 2023 10:58:17 #
Oct 1, 2023 13:34:12 #
Oct 1, 2023 21:19:58 #
Really nice photos of what looks like a great idea and fun event. Thanks for sharing.
Oct 2, 2023 06:34:21 #
Oct 2, 2023 07:26:14 #
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Oct 2, 2023 08:49:40 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
It's good to see you still using one of those dinosaurs (5DmkIII).
Oct 2, 2023 09:22:29 #
Oct 2, 2023 11:14:56 #
Thank you Kathy, NMGal, Wasabi, Jo, Joe, jonsailhob, alberio, billmck! To me, the best part of many of these images was finding I could even read the writing on many of the lanterns.
Oct 2, 2023 11:15:45 #
alberio wrote:
It's good to see you still using one of those dinosaurs (5DmkIII).
Thanks alberio! That's a DSLRosaur, one of the best ever.
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