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Saturday night the Vorlon Wife and I went to the Japanese Obon festival in Seabrook, New Jersey. There is a large number of Japanese living the Seabrook area.
As I understand it, the Obon festival is where they honor their ancestors. There are processional dances, such as you see here. Mostly the dancers are women, but there are a few men.
The “main event†is the Soh Daiko drummers. They are always fun to watch and listen to. It was very warm and humid that night so I’ll bet they really worked up a sweat. When you click on the thumbnail of the drummers, wait for the sound to come on. I’ve attached an mp3 file to the page. It runs about 37 seconds.
I originally took some videos with my little Canon PowerShot A60 camera. The only problem with this is a 30-second clip eats about 4MB of memory.
As a compromise, I stripped the audio from the video and attached it to the web page that pops up, when you click the thumbnail.
I would make a nicer presentation if I could figure out how to have several photos of the drummers and have each photo dissolve into the next – but I haven’t figured out how to do that yet.
One of the challenges of this was I could not get really close enough to get a good shot and the fading light meant I had to crank my little 2MP up to an ASA of 200 and then 400. The picture qaulity suffers as a result.
Posted by The Vorlon at August 15, 2005 10:29 AM