Temple Dancers

Matsu is the Chinese God of sailors and fisherman. Every year in

Centtral Taiwan, there is an 8 day Matsu pilgrimage to celebrate the

God's birthday, where the icon is taken from his home in Jhenlan

Temple, Dajia and paraded around a 300km circuit of central Taiwan.

Yesterday was the first day, which sees groups of people from various

temples come to the Jhenlan temple in Dajia to pay their respects, in

an orgy of sound, color and chaos.

 

Here are 2 of the participants on the day, taking a rest.

 

Technical note - there are some clipped shadows in this, it was very

tricky lighting.

some very nice colors on this one. I like the framing too. Ravi

Good composition, strong emotions.

The face painting add great emotion to the image ! Well capture .

GREAT capture...why don't we have these guys down here in Miaoli county? The color is fantastic...wonder how they'd be posed in a studio? (but then again, it wouldn't be a candid cultural shot?)...