Christmas (navidad) in Puerto Rico is a time for music. Local groups spend the year preparing floats drawn by trucks and at the time of the parranda time move from neighborhood to neighborhood with this moveable music and dancing celebration. At each host house, libations are provided and so into the night the music and dancing becomes more... intense.
This particular parranda kicked off at mid day, with a traditional soup and benediction.
I made these three portraits of participants before the celebration really got going.
The BW's were in-camera JPEGs lightly processed in lightroom.
M9 summilux 50 pre asph. They were shot wide open using an ND filter.
Thanks for looking and for your thoughts.
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