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Old 04-03-2008, 07:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
beansbaxter
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From: Seattle, WA

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Iranian New Years Eve: Chahar-Shanbeh Soori at West Seattle

Chahar-Shanbeh Soori is the Iranian New Years Eve, and the tradition is to setup rows of fires for people to run and jump over each fire. I tried to not use a flash, wanted to capture the essence of the evening. Bottom line is my pictures did not turn out as good as I wanted. It was also difficult capturing so much movement with such low lighting.

Here are some pics from this cold evening on West Seattle:











And this one was my favorite of the night:

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